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FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIOS DE COLOMBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia mean? 

FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIOS DE COLOMBIA (noun)
  The noun FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIOS DE COLOMBIA has 1 sense:

1. a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug dealersplay

  Familiarity information: FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIOS DE COLOMBIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FUERZAS ARMADAS REVOLUCIONARIOS DE COLOMBIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug dealers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FARC; Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)


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