From 1964 to 2016, the Colombian government was defied by the biggest extremist and psychological militant gathering in the nation, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC as they tried to battle against the financial shameful acts the lower classes had encountered for quite a long time (Felter 2017).

FARC was established after the common war between Colombia's Conservative and Liberal ideological groups that spread over 10 years from 1948 to 1958 (USASOC 2014, 120). This time is alluded to as "La Violencia" or The Violence. During La Violencia, the Colombian Communist Party sorted out civilian armies with country networks that would later be seen as a danger once the preservationist and liberal gatherings went to a force sharing understanding (2015). The administration utilized military power in endeavor to quell the laborer local armies; be that as it may, these activities made the alliance of the local armies structure FARC (Martin 2011, 196). The association expected to give better lives to the poor by giving different administrations that the legislature couldn't give, for example, instruction and therapeutic administrations. Faithful people group individuals would thus participate in guerilla preparing camps to become FARC individuals and do missions or assaults. Then again, FARC started sorting out demonstrations of dread so as to sum the capital expected to subsidized their administrations. Their underlying demonstrations of fear comprised essentially of abducting the affluent and tip top for ransoms (2015). However as Colombia turned out to be progressively penetrated by cocaine generation and medication dealing cartels, FARC went to these associations to for all intents and purposes subsidize them by trading administrations for cash (Martin 2011, 196-197). This powered a significant development during the 1980's taking into consideration FARC to all the more firmly seek after their political objectives.

At first, FARC was set up so as to guard the country laborer networks from the well off world class and the legislature however all through their uprising they carried on the help for socialism and faith in Marxism/Leninism of the Colombian Communist Party that prepared a considerable lot of the first worker local armies (Martin 2011, 196). Their essential objective was to at last obliterate Columbia and topple the legislature. In its place, FARC looked to make and actualize their own socialist government where they rule, since they trusted it would take out any financial imbalance that had been brought about by free enterprise. Also, the gathering communicated their restriction to neoliberalism and the organizations related with it, for example, exchange advancement, privatization, and a free market. Harmonizing with their belief system, FARC needed the administration to rehearse a protectionist monetary approach as opposed to seeking after the neoliberal case of the United States. The association accepted that by utilizing import substitution industrialization, levies, and other protectionist rehearses, FARC could set up a solid, locally arranged economy and shield laborers from world market vacillations (USASCO 2014, 138). What's more, they firmly contradicted the impact and contribution of the U.S. with Colombia; which set the objective for lessening or disposing of the impact of the U.S. in the 1990's. Other than retaliating on the monetary impact of the U.S., FARC was resolved to stop the removal of narco dealers since they monetarily helped their association.

For a long time, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia sought after the oust of the legislature and advancement of a socialist state in order to reach the financial uniformity of the laborer populace of Colombia they spoke to.