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= Why Kidnaps, Las Farc? = by Juan Diego media type="custom" key="785135"

**Introduction**
Why does Las Farc kidnap people? First of all, What is Las Farc? Las farc is...if u want to know what it is i'll put a link to it later*. What I really want know is why do they really do it? Some people that know what this is say it is very dangerous to talk about it. Why do they kidnap people? It is very sad how your family members are going on with their everyday lives until some terrorist group that are most feared by the people come and kidnap them without being able to even say good-bye. This is the terrible pain you go through if your family member was kidnapped. I'm going to try to find a way to be able to explain this.

**Search**
There was no available person to interview for my topic so my I-search is based on some articles off the internet. Las Farc was first made to be a simple guerrilla group in the 1960s, later on it started dealing with trafficking drugs. Because of this, it was kicked out or taken out of colombia's communist party. FARC is led by Manuel Marulanda Velez (Tirofijo). Farc has about 6,000-8,000 estimated soldiers in 2008. some countries consider the farc a terrorist group, but other countries like Cuba and Venezuela consider it "insurgents". They plan an armed revolution and use kidnapping and illegal drug traffic to make money. The Farc kidnaps liitle kids as young as 12 years old to be soldiers or messengers. If the children try to escape, they are sentenced to torture or even death. Farc is known as a terrorist group because of its kidnapping and its constant city attacks. Farc use to trade the kidnapped people for the rebels that were imprisoned when Andres Pastrana was President of colombia. Now the current president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, does not allow this. He says that they just capture some new person. He is doing Rescue missions which aren't a really good ideas, but they have worked.They only kidnap civilians and politicians to be able to exchange with the goverment for the rebels that are imprisioned.

**Conclusion**
I finally found out why Las farc kidnap innocent people. They kidnaped innocent people just to make the government take off their taxes, and to be able to traffic illegal drugs without a problem.

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