ABSTRACT
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) first explorations to place its militants in other countries demonstrate that support from national governments can indeed be very helpful, a catalyst even, for the spread of networks beyond borders. The analysis of FARC’s nature and how it adapted to the context unavoidably takes to the transnational dimension. Military officials had been captured, tortured, and killed in the Venezuela country, without their cases making it to the news. Identifying the exact structure of the networks developed by the Cominter is not easy given their secrecy. It is nearly impossible to determine with precision how many militants were involved in each of the countries, but a general idea about network topology can be described, without assuming it was a static structure. As a consequence, the insurgency’s international structures can be understood as an opened system. It is difficult to trace the line that separated militants from the rest of society.
