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Colombian Narcotraffic Industry

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1.2 . The role of the paramilitary organization in the Colombian narcotraffic industry: the FARC;
Colombia is a country in which, since the mid 1960s, the instability has always been related to a paramilitary organization that played an important role both in the development of this country and of the drug Trafficking.
The oldest and largest organized criminal organization is the FARC-EP( Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejercito de Pueblo), a Marxist–Leninist organization.
This rebel army started out in the year 1948 as a group of farmers who fled to the mountains of western Tolima department to escape La Violencia, a civil war between the Liberal and Conservative political parties. The band rarely clashed with the Colombian army …show more content…

Indeed its base of support for recruitment is based in the isolated rural areas of Colombia: as it has not success in most of population of Colombia, it recruits only person with a low level of education- most of the times they are analphabets- and which also need to increase their revenues as they live in the rural and poorest areas of this country. Thus this means that the FARC relies on the differences in class and wealth to recruit new members and producers. Furthermore, in the FARC they uses children as fighters, not only because in this way they cannot study, but also because they grow inside the FARC and became an important resource for this organization. (E’ CHIARO O …show more content…

Colombia has not been the world’s cocaine leader only due to reasons regarding the instability of the country or its geographical location, but especially due to to this paramilitary organization.
The political instability is present in most of the Latin American countries, but if the drugs industry has been developing especially in Colombia is because of the strategy implemented by the FARC.
Many times the Colombian government tried to dismantle this organization through policies or plans in common with other countries too such as the United States but, due to the exponential growth of the FARC and the profits gained during the last fifty years, it seems impossible to dismantle it.
Colombia in the last ten years reduced the supply of the drug through the use different policies, but it still remains the leading country in cocaine’s production. (AMPLIARE O SPIEGARE

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