Colombia: As Colombia's FARC Disarms, Rebels Enlisted to Fight Deforestation

Jun 9, 2017 | Anastasia Moloney, Reuters
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Seen from the air, muddy rivers snake through rolling forested hills stretching to the horizon in Colombia's southern province of Caqueta that for decades were rebel lairs and an epicentre of the civil war. A peace deal signed last year between the government and the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ended half a century of conflict.