/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

IIRC FARC, ELN, EPA, and M19 never manufactured or distributed cocaine themselves, they protected cocoa leaf growing peasants and taxed the trade happening in areas they operated in. The Colombian economy is so awful for its rural poor that cocoa is essentially the only crop you can grow and make a living in. It was the right wing paramilitaries like Gulf Clan who were actually making the cocaine out of the leaves and sending it to Trinidad where it would find its way to the US.

>>2852975
They demobilized. The peace process however was a farce, so many, being targets disarmed in the government camps, folded into ELN, FARC-EP, and various drug gang. Leads to some schizophrenia, coppied from one FARC-EP group turned drug gang:
<The criminal organisation describes itself as ideologically centrist and makes it clear that it does not subscribe to left-wing or right-wing doctrines, adding that “Marxist or fascist theories are not accepted within our organisation”. It also states that it accepts “all types of fighters, regardless of their background or combat experience”, provided they are not “enemies of the state”
A big part of the offensives we've been seeing by the ELN are apparently because of this influx of manpower and so on.
This could have gone into /QTDDTOT/ to be fair.

>>2852975
>Are/were they just drug traffickers and gangsters, or a real political movement?
both to different degrees at different points subject to internal and external influences