Three times in the past 30 years Colombian governments have tried and failed to negotiate peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Government (FARC), a onetime Marxist guerrilla group that embraced kidnapping, drug trafficking and terrorism. The most dismal episode began in 1999, when the government declared a cease-fire and ceded the FARC a safe zone the size of Switzerland, only to watch as the group used the space to regroup, recruit and cultivate coca while refusing to bargain seriously.
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