FARC guerrillas holding Christina Jurado as hostage.
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC, English: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) was a Colombian Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement active in the Colombian conflict.
The FARC engaged in a brutal insurgency in the Colombian jungles for nearly half a century, and were in open conflict with the CNP and other right-wing paramilitaries such as the ACCU. To finance their anti-imperialist struggle, FARC relied heavily on ransoms generated by kidnapping.
FARC worked as contract kidnappers for the Cali cartel, and kidnapped American Christina Jurado for the cartel in 1994. She was rescued by a joint DEA-ACCU operation.