Colombia's FARC Guerillas: From Revolution to the Golden Age of Cocaine w/Toby Muse

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fought a guerrilla war against Colombia’s government - as well as against right wing militias and drug cartels - for over four decades before signing a peace treaty in 2016 and then dissolving in 2017, though splinter faction known as The Dissidents still prowls the jungles. As the FARC were coming up, another violent group in Colombia hellbent on taking over territory was also growing: the country’s infamous drug cartels. In this episode, we’re joined by longtime cartel correspondent and frequent guest, author Toby Muse to detail the history of the FARC and what exactly was their role in Colombia’s cocaine trade. Toby is the author of Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On a Monday morning in May 1992 a 20 year old woman is murdered in her home
0:06.9	Her husband of just nine days comes home from work and finds his high school sweetheart stabbed to death.
0:13.8	Her name is Jennifer Judd.
0:16.4	Who killed Jennifer Judd?
0:18.2	In this new series, we'll attempt to solve a 32-year-old cold case. Listen to who killed Jennifer Judd on Apple. all the It's July 2nd 2008 in the jungles of Southern Colombia.
0:35.0	Deep in these impenetrable forests, there's a group of militants
0:40.0	and they hear helicopters coming towards them.
0:42.0	They're excited, but they're not worried.
0:45.0	They think it's all just part of a plan
0:48.0	to transfer away some precious cargo they've been holding.
0:51.0	And that precious cargo is actually hostages. Some are
0:55.6	Colombian soldiers. There's a few Americans. And there's Ingrid Bedding Corps, a
1:00.6	former senator and presidential candidate.
1:03.0	She's been held hostage in the jungle for six and a half years at this point.
1:08.0	She'd been campaigning in a supposedly demilitarized zone in 2002,
1:12.0	when she was grabbed from her car at a checkpoint.
1:15.0	The guerillas holding her are members of the Marxist-Leninist militia
1:19.0	known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC as everyone calls them.
1:25.0	At this point, they've been fighting the government of Colombia for more than four decades.
1:30.0	While they haven't exactly threatened to take over cities like Bogota or
1:34.7	Cali, they've held their own in the wild jungles, making the military and police
1:40.0	forces bleed. And as the militants have been rising up over the decades, so of course
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