![]() ![]() The magnet is a discovery so ancient that it was known to the junksailing traders of the Han dynasty in the second century BCE. Until at last, the revolutionary forces tore themselves apart in bitterness and blood. Its soldiers kidnapped government ministers, extorted coffee farmers, and trained eight-year-olds to fight with Kalashnikov rifles. ![]() Up in those heights, the rebels formed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, and for the next sixty years, that guerilla army waged an increasingly violent resistance against global capitalism. Ambushed, the rebels were forced to abandon the republic, grabbing machetes and petrol bombs as they fled for the heights. The Colombian government descended with sixteen thousand soldiers backed by US Huey choppers rattling angry in the sky. ![]() They’d erase the old system of monied power and rescript civilization, building utopia.īut abruptly, in the late spring of 1964, utopia was ended. And although its size was modest, its hundreds of inhabitants had a bold plan to expand. The republic was a wonder, quilting freedom and justice with monsoon rain forests and avalanche peaks. For it was then that rebel peasants escaped into the mountain outback of the Andes to found the Marquetalia Republic. ![]()
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