Santos has made achieving peace with the Farc the main priority of his presidency but faces criticism from conservative sectors of Colombian society who feel the 8,000 strong guerrilla force should be defeated militarily.
Determined to draw a line in El Salvador against leftist insurgents after Nicaragua fell to the Sandinistas, the Reagan administration in 1981 beefed up Special Forces teams sent to train Salvadoran government troops to fight an increasingly strong guerrilla army, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
However, in counties with strong guerrilla forces such as Yueqing, Cixi, Wenling, or Jinhua, the majority of cadres at the grassroots level were from local guerrilla forces.
Through using the Historical Material of Organization of CCP in Zhejiang province (Organization Department of CCP Zhejiang 1994) and county gazetteers, we define the counties with strong guerrilla forces as those with established guerrillas prior to May 1948 (1 year before the liberation of Zhejiang's capital city, Hangzhou); otherwise, the counties were regarded as having weak or no guerrillas.
Telling only his closest advisers, Colombia's president-elect, Andres Pastrana, last week travelled deep into the jungle to meet the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, its strongest guerrilla group.
Although ceasefire talks are continuing in the FARC's enclave, the 18,000-strong guerrilla force has stepped up its campaign across the rest of the country.
WHEN the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's strongest guerrilla group, wanted to convince the government that they were serious about restarting peace talks, they tried to prove their good intentions by formally renouncing their decades-old practice of kidnapping for ransom.
Officials argue that this military effort is essential because the FARC have taken direct control of the drug trade in southern Colombia, using the proceeds to finance and re-arm their 20,000-strong guerrilla army.For the past two months, the FARC has blockaded towns in Putumayo.
Hezbollah, one of the world's strongest guerrilla armies, has also become involved — either defending Lebanon, or making things worse, depending on who you ask.
Hezbollah, one of the world's strongest guerrilla armies, has also become involved the group is either defending Lebanon or making things worse, depending on who you ask.
