section_path: Relations/FARC/FARC dissidents
section_name: FARC dissidents
paragraph_text: FARC dissidents
  
  According to InSight Crime, the ELN and FARC dissidents met together in Venezuela to form a potential alliance in October 2018. Sources based in the Arauca department in Colombia provided the information, with reports that the groups would participate in illicit activity together. It was also alleged that former FARC commander Iván Márquez participated in the talks with the ELN.