The fighting has been going for 16 years. In a country less populous than the state of New York, it has already claimed the lives of some 200,000 people six times the total battle deaths of all U.S. forces in the Korean war.
Colombians simply call it la violencia, the only way to describe the sense less slaughter and banditry waged by hate-filled peasants who long ago forgot what they were fighting about. Now, at long last, there are encouraging signs that Colombia's government is gaining the upper hand and beginning to pacify the remote badlands.
In 1962, according...
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