Terrorism in Colombia

In Colombia, there is a big political discussion going on. The topic is how to stop the many terrorist groups there are affecting civil and government establishments. The war between the Colombian government and the many groups between themselves could be called a civil war. Because Colombia has a great diversity in plants and huge forestry zones, most of the terrorism groups hide there because inside the dark forest, no military forces could find them and they spend a long time learning the routes to get in and not get lost. On front of the entrance of the forest, the terrorist groups place some destruction mines and they make a plan so the government’s military forces fall on it and themselves don't.

The main groups are FARC (Colombian Armed Revolutionary Forces), ELN (National Liberation Army) and the Guerrilla. The similarities between FARC and ELN is that both are representing the poor unwealthy farmers and poor people attacking the wealthy rich people; even though they both basically have the same plan, they are enemy and the FARC is constantly threatening the ELN.

The FARC and the ELN are militarized groups as I have already said but the biggest difference between them and the Guerrilla is that the Guerrilla are hidden between us because they look like normal civil and the ELN and the FARC are most of the times with military uniforms. The ELN and FARC have incautivated many millions of pesos due to the kidnapping they do and the reward that is pay to them to let free the kidnapped person.

Because the FARC and the ELN are in the forest, they send different people on big cars to search for food and personal needs items to the city. The Colombian army realized that and they put security patrol police that are on the highways so when a car passes with a lot of food on it they realize that it may be from the terrorist groups so the officers stop the car and ask for license and the owners personal documents plus they make a quick checking to see if the have some drugs on the car.

These groups hide the food underground in certain places so only when they really need it they search for it and hide it all over again. The FARC counts on about 12,000 to 18,000 military servants from a child to a old man. The FARC has children, women, old veterans, and obviously young men. The FARC and the ELN use the Colombian rivers as a mayor trading route of weapons and Cocaine and any other type of illegal drugs.

On the movies people talk of Colombian as the biggest producer of drugs even though it's true due to terrorism, Colombia is a wonderful country and the government is doing everything to stop this terrorist groups and bring peace to our country. In conclusion terrorism in Colombia is really big, someday those people will recognize that what they are doing is bad and that we could all work together to make peace.