FARC

/ fɑːk /

acronym

1. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist revolutionary guerrilla force engaging in armed struggle against the government of Colombia

Example Sentences

Because of his success as president from 2002-2010 in defeating the rebel group FARC, he remains influential on the right.

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Despite their ideological differences and bitter feuds, Uribe relied on Córdoba and Chávez to secure the release of several politicians and soldiers held captive for the years by the FARC.

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The rebel unit was run by a holdout commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who refused to go along with a 2016 peace deal that Piedad Córdoba helped broker, prosecutors said.

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The FARC-EMC are a splinter group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

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In neighboring Colombia, the government signed a landmark peace agreement in 2016 with the country’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which controlled much of the drug trade.

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