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Last Thursday marked what may be Colombia's best chance to avert a hellish future. At the southern town of San Vicente del Caguan, inside the jungle realm of the biggest and fiercest Marxist guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief...
...FARC said Marulanda feared an assassination attempt, but many Colombians fear that the guerrillas aren't really serious about peace. Sureshot's snub makes the U.S. nervous as well. If Pastrana's efforts fail to hold Colombia together--if the FARC solidifies its sovereignty over coca-land--the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia could unravel. Washington spends more than $100 million annually to help Colombia's national police destroy coca crops but to little avail--largely because the FARC earns 40% of its estimated $1 billion annual income from a tax it levies on coca farmers to protect their...
...training and equipment are not used for counter-insurgency against guerrilla forces. In Colombia, where the War on Drugs and the government's counter-insurgency efforts are most intertwined, the bill earmarks $168 million for helicopters and other aircraft, despite repeated reports of clashes between Colombian air forces and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) guerrillas...
...Cancer Center will be joined by the French Association for Cancer Research (FARC), the French equivalent of the American Cancer Society. FARC will be donating the $600,000 needed for the project...
...feel this agreement coincides with goals stated by our organization and United States cancer officials of dramatically reducing cancer deaths by the year 2000," said FARC President Jacques Crozemarie in a press release issued last week...