EP03 – La Violencia and the Birth of the FARC
History of the Guerrilla in Colombia
Between 1948 and 1958, Colombia lived through a war that preferred not to call itself one. La Violencia was not a civil war in the classical sense; there were no defined fronts or armies in the field, but rather a machinery of rural dispossession in which party affiliation decided the fate of farms and bodies. … CONTINUE READING →