[eloisius]

I don’t know if you’re Colombian, but this sounds like Marxist wishful thinking. When I was there with my Colombian ex, everywhere we drove around the countryside had military or police checkpoints, and at every one of them the people clapped, tooted the horn and yelled thank you out the window at the guys with guns outside. We went to visit one of her uncles who is an actual farmer growing soursops, and he told us stories of how the guerrillas came to extort people years before, and if you didn’t pay to support their “revolution” they would spray oil all over your farmland, ruining it.