Some ex-FARC guerrillas have become tourist guides in Colombia

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Some ex-FARC guerrillas have become tourist guides in Colombia
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“We’ve exchanged our rifles for oars,” grins a former FARC member who now guides raft tours. “You’d have to be mad to prefer war over peace”

Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskMr Noreña is a former fighter of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , a guerrilla group. Some 7,000 of his comrades gave up their weapons after a peace deal in 2016 that formally brought to an end the longest-running domestic conflict in the western hemisphere.

Several such projects exist. Ex-guerrillas offer birdwatching, hiking and hearty campfire cuisine as part of Tierra Grata Ecotours in La Paz, a town near the border with Venezuela. Over a two-day hike along boggy mountain paths, Jhonni Giraldo, a formerfootsoldier, leads hardy tourists to Marquetalia, a hamlet. In 1964 the military bombed an armed commune founded by refugees here into oblivion; the survivors headed to the hills and theinsurgency was born.

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