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FARC Compare And Contrast Essay

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According to the Colombian Public Prosecutor's Offices, “the FARC are not terrorist or narcos”. The FARC history started in the 1960s to overthrow the Colombian government and seize control of the country; a group of farmers based on Marxism-Leninist statements. By the 1990s, however, the dynamic of the conflict suffered important changes. One main factor was the political influence of the drug trade, as paramilitary and guerrilla forces financed by drug traffickers attacked leftist organizations throughout the country, also, drug money corrupted many politicians. Meanwhile, at the same time, in the United States Mafia was about to end, but the ideals and all the business rules not. So, comparing these two illegal groups, Mafia’s slogan “it's just business” is exceeded by today's FARC resulting in a narco-guerrilla.

The slogan of “It´s just business” is a slogan that says Vito Corleone to express that it´s part of the game of Mafia, but the same character …show more content…

Meanwhile, FARC has killed millions of innocent people to maintain their business or to impose their government, this doesn’t mean that the act of killing is justified by their businesses. Meaning this, while for the Mafia if they were not bothered they not bothered other people, instead, FARC kills no matter why. In this case, is evident two different scenarios of understanding the slogan of “it’s just business”, because for the Mafia is a logical and coherent idea because they don’t kill because they want, whilst FARC misinterprets and exceeds that slogan until the point where they can kill all the people that they want, but it should not be in that way because that problem generates more conflict than

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