1983 : (COLUMBIA : ) FARC’s war on America dates back to 1983 when the Marxist terror group took its first American hostage.
1996 : (COLUMBIA : ) Frank Pescatore, a geologist, was kidnapped and murdered by FARC in 1996. The Marxist terrorists packed his body with lime and formaldehyde and tried to pretend that he was still alive in the hopes of collecting a ransom for him.
1999 spring : (COLUMBIA : ) “Take them across the river and burn them.” That was how the lives of three left-wing American environmental activists had ended in the spring of 1999. Their killers were members of the FARC Marxist terror group. The victims were shot in the face after being tortured.
2008 :(THAILAND : Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout , Merchant of Death, is arrested — see Liberia’s Charles Taylor, Columbian narcoterrorists FARC)
2015 : (WASHINGTON, DC : -— see COLUMBIA) Obama administration says that it would not seek the extradition of FARC terrorists.
AUGUST 2022 : (COLUMBIA : Former M-19 guerilla Gustavo Petro is sworn in as president -— see son Nicolas Petro, drugs,narcoterrorism)
2016 : (COLUMBIA : FARC — see Obama, Biden Admin) Marxist rebels, formally known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord.