What are the effects of the FARC operations on the government of Columbia?
Fuerza Armadas Revolucionaria del Comun, Peoples Army (FARC)The effects of Fuerza Armadas Revolucioaria del Comun(FARC) activities since 1964 have wreaked havoc and chaos for the government and the people of Columbia resulting in destabilization of that political system as well as negatively impacting surrounding countries in that part of the Latin American region. FARC came into existence as a result of national liberal sentiment, political division and the assignation of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan (January 23 – April 9, 1948)
Gaitan was champion for the peasants and impoverished people of Colombia and fully embraced liberal views and created …show more content…
He disagreed with the politics of then president Marco Fidel Suarez and participated in a protest movement against Suarez.
In 1928 After the banana worker’s strike in Magdalena, he gained enormous national popularity. The US government under Calvin Coolidge threatened to invade if the Colombian government did not intervene to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company United Fruit representatives reported the strike as “communistic subversive activity” and had sent numerous telegrams to the US Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg. The Colombian army fired upon the strikers resulting in numerous deaths.
Gaitan using his already rising popularity calling for accountability to those involved. In 1933, he left the Colombian Liberal Party to create the Union Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria (National Leftist Revolutionary Union), or UNIR. This was his own political dissident movement. He divided the country into two groups. Oligarchy and the people. He defined Oligarchy as corrupt and the latter as deserving of “moral restoration”. During this time, he gained even more popularity by denouncing social moral and economical evils that were features of both Liberal and Conservative
Fuerza Armadas Revolucionaria del Comun, Peoples Army (FARC)The effects of Fuerza Armadas Revolucioaria del Comun(FARC) activities since 1964 have wreaked havoc and chaos for the government and the people of Columbia resulting in destabilization of that political system as well as negatively impacting surrounding countries in that part of the Latin American region. FARC came into existence as a result of national liberal sentiment, political division and the assignation of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan (January 23 – April 9, 1948)
Gaitan was champion for the peasants and impoverished people of Colombia and fully embraced liberal views and created …show more content…
He disagreed with the politics of then president Marco Fidel Suarez and participated in a protest movement against Suarez.
In 1928 After the banana worker’s strike in Magdalena, he gained enormous national popularity. The US government under Calvin Coolidge threatened to invade if the Colombian government did not intervene to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company United Fruit representatives reported the strike as “communistic subversive activity” and had sent numerous telegrams to the US Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg. The Colombian army fired upon the strikers resulting in numerous deaths.
Gaitan using his already rising popularity calling for accountability to those involved. In 1933, he left the Colombian Liberal Party to create the Union Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria (National Leftist Revolutionary Union), or UNIR. This was his own political dissident movement. He divided the country into two groups. Oligarchy and the people. He defined Oligarchy as corrupt and the latter as deserving of “moral restoration”. During this time, he gained even more popularity by denouncing social moral and economical evils that were features of both Liberal and Conservative