From Colombia

20th century in Colombia started with a war between the two unique political parties, conservador and liberal, called "the 1000 days war", and that confrontation lasted throughout most of the century. In 1953 an Army general gave a coup to the State and was president for three years. After that, he handed over the power to a militar junta called "National Front" for one more year. Then conservadores and liberales dealed to alternate the power in four-years periods, which did not allow any other politicas options but allowed the birth of left-wing guerrillas such as ELN and FARC. In 1970, due to the insatisfaction of some sectors because of the result of that year elections, a new left-wing guerrilla was born as M-19, fact that brought more vilolence and kidnapping to the nation. Narcotraffic showed up in the middle of that decade with moree violence. At the beginning of the 80's the drug dealers decided to fight the guerrillas by creating the self-defences grou