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Colombia Terrorism 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Colombia Terrorism 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Terrorist groups - home based:
National Liberation Army (Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional, ELN):
aim(s):
Marxist-Leninist group that seeks to defend Colombians whom they believed to be victims of social, political, and economic injustices perpetrated by the Colombian government
area(s) of operation: the nation's largest remaining insurgent group operates mainly in the rural and mountainous areas of northern, northeastern, and southwestern Colombia as well as border regions with Venezuela
note: the group has a long history of engaging in narcotics production and trafficking, extortion of foreign and local companies, and kidnappings for ransom to fund operations; historically focused on attacking economic infrastructure, in particular oil and gas pipelines and electricity pylons (2019)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC):
aim(s):
signed a peace accord with the Colombian Government in 2016 (approved by the Colombian Congress on 30 November 2016) and entered the political arena in September 2017 as the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force (also known as FARC) in order to change Colombia's economic model, push an agenda focused on social justice and development of rural areas; historically, the FARC's aim has been to install a Marxist-Leninist regime in Colombia through a violent revolution
area(s) of operation: NA (2018)


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Colombia on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Colombia Terrorism 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Colombia Terrorism 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.






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