'There's nothing for us': Farc rebels search for purpose a year after historic deal
At the height of its power, Colombia’s Farc was the most powerful guerrilla army in Latin America. Now former fighters are struggling to adapt to civilian life
Until recently, Sofía, a slight, unassuming 22-year-old, was a member of Latin America’s most powerful guerrilla army: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
At the height of its powers, the group mounted devastating ambushes on government soldiers, kidnapped thousands of ordinary civilians and shifted shipments of drugs worth millions.
But today, after a peace deal signed one year ago, Sofía now lives in a demobilisation camp in Mesetas, where the edges of Colombia’s dense southern jungle meet the country’s rolling eastern plains.
Like many former fighters, she is
