Word: guerillas
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...recalls. “But deep down, I knew that if I stayed, I risked capture by the rebels, who wanted to force all young males to join their side”. Indeed, RUF rebels have been accused of enlisting children as young as six years old in their guerilla army. Not knowing how long they would be gone or how they would get to the US after reaching Guinea, the decision to board the boat was a hard one for Edgar and his family to make; his father, compelled to protect the family’s house and belongings...
...point of view, this evidence against the background of the fact that she had worked for a leader of the (leftist guerrilla movement) Farabundo Mart? Front for National Liberation in El Salvador didn't look good. Her past painted her as somebody quite likely to be connected with a guerilla movement in Peru. The fact that she refused to criticize (the MRTA) also helped strengthen the case against...
...filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez has a kind of dazzling, turbo-charged vitality that is only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated...
Growing the coca plant is not necessarily the choice of the campesino farmers in Colombia; contrary to the hard-lined beliefs of the U.S., farmers are often forced to change their food crops to the incredibly lucrative yield of soon-to-be cocaine. Guerilla groups have complete control over the Colombian farmland and can easily hold a gun to the head of a powerless campesino, demanding that he grow the volatile crop. Besides the violent threats of the guerillas, many campesinos have no practical option but to grow coca, for they are among the poorest people in the world. Living...
...tossing $1.3 billion at Colombia, employs almost solely military tactics. By attacking the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerilla group with Marxist underpinnings dwelling in central Colombia since the 1960s, the U.S. somehow believes that inexperienced Colombian troops can battle with the guerillas on the coca fields until they destroy a means of production...