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Rebel Music: FARC Celebrate Colombia Peace Accord In Concert
It was a sort of Woodstock Colombian style. But there were no drugs or alcohol, and instead of barefoot hippies frolicking to rock music those jamming out are leftist rebels in knee-high rubber boots.
As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia gathers for its final conference as a guerrilla army they’re taking time to celebrate with music a peace accord they hope will bring an end to a half-century of bloodshed.
On Sunday night, hundreds took time from the all-day proceedings for a concert with big-name acts from Bogota as well as some homespun groups with names like “The Rebels of the South.”
Photo: Ricardo Mazalan/AP
A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia sits with his mother and girlfriend during a concert in in Yari Plains, Colombia.
The concert took place on a giant stage complete with a fog machine dropped in the middle of Colombia’s southern plains where the conference is taking place.