Colombia’s FARC guerrillas are back. Across the nation, thousands of Marxist fighters who demobilized after the 2016 peace agreement are taking up arms again. The first “dissidents” from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, appeared in southern Colombia soon after the peace deal was signed, but the new groups have spread rapidly across the nation as ex-combatants feel betrayed by the government’s failure to live up to its promises.
Here, in the far north of the Colombian Andes, the dissidents spend their days training and fighting the so-called Gulf Clan, a cocaine cartel whose private army occupied the region after the FARC entered United Nations-monitored camps. Photographer Nicolas Bedoya spent a week documenting the daily lives of Colombia’s dissident guerrillas.