VIDEO: Ex-communist rebels in Colombia swap weapons for farm tools at rural commune

By Paul Antonopoulos Last updated Feb 19, 2018

January 26, 2018 – Fort Russ News – Paul Antonopoulos

AGUA BONITA, Colombia – Nestled in rural southern Colombia lies a small socialist commune populated by former militants of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist-orientated guerrilla group.

Located in Caqueta Department, deep inside the former war-zone, Agua Bonita is now a picture of peaceful cooperation.

Following a peace deal in 2016, the FARC militants laid down their arms and turned their attention to farming, repair-work and intellectual pursuits, as they seek to integrate into society.

Right-wing militiamen still continue to hunt down and murder former FARC-fighters while receiving little legal action against them by the Colombian state.

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Paul Antonopoulos is a Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies. He has an MA in International Relations and is interested in Great Power Rivalry as well as the International Relations and Political Economy of the Middle East and Latin America.

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