has faced a significant reduction in “
...South America has
its operational capacity since 2007.
The group has been able to survive been home to some
arrests, deaths, and defections of
its senior leaders due to continued of the most active,
support from Venezuela and Ecuador;
in late 2009 FARC merged with the pernicious terrorist
smaller National Liberation Army
(ELN), providing it with substantial movements in the world
financial resources derived from
kidnapping and its deep involvement and is a prime example
in narco-trafficking.
On 19th July 1994 an Alas Chiricanas flight was blown The threat to civil aviation derives of the crime-terror
up in Panama. from FARC’s criminal exploitation of
aviation as well as its past record of nexus...”
on a domestic route in Panama. This hijackings for political and financial
incident is widely regarded as the very gain. For example, FARC hijacked Groups of Concern in
first terrorist suicide bombing of a an Avianca airliner in 1999, taking 41 North America
commercial airliner. While there is a hostages, while another hijacking of There are two ideological and one key
re-emergence of the Peruvian Maoists an Avianca aircraft in 2002 resulted criminal threats facing North America.
Shining Path, the centre of gravity in in the kidnapping of a Colombian The most pressing threat, once
South American remains Colombia. senator onboard. FARC has also again, emerges from al-Qaeda and its
attempted to acquire anti-aircraft metastasising ideology. While there is
FARC weapons in recent years, although also concern about independent and
The Marxist Revolutionary Armed this is more likely an attempt to semi-linked cells operating in the US,
Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the develop an anti-helicopter capability and even lone wolf attacks such as at
oldest insurgent group in Latin against the Colombian military, rather Fort Hood, it should be noted that all
America and it continues to pose a than an indicator of plans to shoot the significant plots against US civil
potential threat to civil aviation. FARC down commercial aircraft. aviation have originated with attackers
Organised by:
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