In the departments of Meta and Caquetá, where the state and FARC have strongly competed for control, a local FARC leader forbade mothers from picking up FA checks and distributed pamphlets and "manuals for civilian conduct" that included prohibitions on participating in FA (e.g...
but it appears they are intended to serve similar purposes. To some extent, they are intended to deter people from engaging in drug-related and other criminal activity. They may also be intended to punish individuals for engaging in undesirable...