FARC leader Alfonso CanoFrom The Cristian Science Monitor:
The leftist militants have launched 'plan rebirth' following a year of withering setbacks.
Tumaco, Colombia - "Phoenix" had been jobless for months in this bustling town on Colombia's southern Pacific coast when he accepted a job, which paid $16 a day, working in a cocaine lab along with 24 others.
But when they were taken to where they were supposed to work, it turned out to be a training camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), flush with 75 new recruits. "We were told we were now rebels," says Phoenix, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Phoenix," who escaped three months later, says he never wanted to be a member of Colombia's largest rebel army, but during his time as a guerrilla, he got a glimpse of the FARC's plan to regroup after a year of devastating setbacks.
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My Comment: FARC's Achilles heel is the drug trade .... if you can stop that, you can then destroy their financing and its principle means for support.