The Americas | Colombia

Phoney peace

|BOGOTA

A BUNCH of bandits with no agenda and no future. That is how many in the press, politics and the army portray the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. But there is plenty of life yet in the country's main guerrilla movement.

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