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The '''Socio-economic structure''' of the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC-EP]] refers to the FARC's social structure and economic activities. The FARC is mostly a military organization, but generally these aspects are considered to be of importance by analysts. There are lot non-military policies and activities involved, having been implemented throughout the FARC's four decades of history.

==Background==
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=="People's education"==
The concept of "people's education´" was significant to the FARC even before the 1964 attack on Marquetalia. Traditionally, proper education has been limited to higher income classes in Latin America, as well as in Colombia, due to the historical absence of possibilities for free education. Illiterate peasant communities have historically existed throughout Colombia and the region. The FARC believe that human beings have the right
  to be educated, as education serves as the bridge towards a more developed society, in particular a socialist-based society. The FARC has come to spend resources to educate some of the people living inside territories where their influence is high and public education is otherwise lacking. Much of Western Civilization is based on the importance of education, but Latin American ruling classes tended to ignore that fact by not introducing free education policies in their nations. In some remote rural regions,(contracted; show full)
*''War in Colombia: Made in U.S.A.'', edited by Rebeca Toledo, Teresa Gutierrez, Sara Flounders and Andy McInerney, ISBN 0965691691, 2003
*''The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia'', Aviva Chomsky and Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, Common Courage Press, ISBN 1567513220, 2005

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