Word: farce
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...Representatives Thursday, is motivated less by ideological affinity with Colombia's rulers than by the war on drugs, but nobody doubts that its net effect will be to beef up counterinsurgency efforts. In instances - and there are many - where the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) stand between the authorities and the drug traffickers, fighting the FARC inevitably becomes part and parcel of the war on drugs. But the Pentagon and a number of U.S. legislators believe the aid puts Washington on a slippery slope to direct involvement in a four-decades-old civil...
...meanwhile, began warning that Colombia was spiraling out of control. The coca fields in the south were protected by guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an 11,000-strong force, which, along with the 6,000-member National Liberation Army, operates in 40% of the country. The FARC was earning at least $100 million a year from the traffickers. Its well-armed guerrillas, who have choppers, signal-intelligence equipment and even R.-and-R. resorts in Panama, were becoming better paid and equipped than Colombian army soldiers...