ABSTRACT
The Communist Clandestine Party and the Movimiento Bolivariano seemed to be like ghosts. Their names are everywhere in Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's (FARC) documents, there is graffiti all over cities, and they appear in YouTube videos in rallies at universities, and yet, nobody seems to know who they are. From the complex-networked approach, it is important to note that although militias looked structurally like a military organisation, their operations were absolutely unconventional. The global chain of narcotics production and trade is a borderless network bringing together a wide variety of actors from different countries. FARC’s nodes are not involved in all tasks in this production-trade chain. In terms of topology, drug production-trafficking networks were mainly decentralised and acephalous; a hybrid of different types of network forms, constituting loosely coupled networks. Colombians continued to observe FARC as a bunch of rebels in isolated areas of the territory; ignoring that some sectors had become more integrated with society in urban spaces.
