Abstract
The Fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo, more generally known under their shortest acronym: FARC, have been playing a great part in Columbia's political life since 1964. For more than forty years, it has been that the first guerilla involved in the Columbian armed conflict. Based on the Marxist theory, they have a strong communist ideology, as their founder – Jacobo Arenas – was commissioned by the Columbian Communist Party's leader to gather all the existing independent peasant guerrilla groups. Then, the FARC became the military wing of the Communist Party. After a period when their revolutionary activity was reduced, the FARC came back violently on the national and international scenes during the 1990's. Their numerous and violent actions – attacks, murder attempts, kidnappings – brought them in the American and European list of terrorist organizations in 2005.
However, these actions have also led to their current difficulties like strengthening the national and the international struggle against them, and turning the Columbians' opinion against them. Very recently, the organization's main leaders have been killed and the numbers of members have seriously decreased. Then, we can wonder if these difficult times for the FARC are announcing the end of a story that lasted nearly a half century.
First, we are going to see how and why FARC has been created and developed. Then, we will study the different stages that the FARC has known since 1964. To finish, different scenarios will appear for the FARC's future.
