COLOMBIA Colombia is the only country in the Western hemisphere suffering a major internal armed conflict. The Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) and, especially, the much stronger Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), have engaged in armed struggle with the Colombian Government since 1965. Right-wing paramilitaries and a number of extremely violent criminal gangs complete a web of illegal armed groups, which occasionally have operated in collusion with state security forces. Drug trafficking has become a major financial fuel for violence among all armed actors. Colombia ranks as a mid-income country, but also as one of the countries with the highest inequality in the world. BRAZIL The Brazilian military government was the authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from April 1, 1964, to March 15, 1985. It began with the 1964 coup d'état led by the Armed Forces against the administration of President João Goulart—who, having been vi