Reseña

Introduction
This book is based on the spontaneous and hair-raising, Johnny’s verbal testimony. He is a former guerilla who belonged and spent almost 13 years inside many of the Farc fronts.
In Hell, summarizes and records for historic memory, experiences of a Colombian peasant guy. Johnny was 12-year-old, when he left his mother’s home and was engaged to the oldest Latin-American irregular armed and terrorist organization.
Johnny’s narration articulates the dramatic and exciting storm of facts, hidden or masked; around the daily events inside harsh Leninist systems. This violent way of political life was the cultivated in the Farc by Luis Alberto Morantes, a. Jacobo Arenas , its instigator and founder,
The documental testimony reflects unsuspected profiles about the revolutionary war that is besieging Colombia since five decades ago, as a logic consequence of the audacious management that Pedro Antonio Marin, a. Tirofijo or Manuel Marulanda Vélez gave to this terrorist organization.
Furthermore, the situation has become worst, due to the corruption of several politicians whose actions or omissions have allowed that the extreme level of violence comes until unsuspected extremes.
40% of Colombian guerrillas are thousands of young peasants whose individual inoffensive appearance, described with amplitude and precision by Johnny, reveals flagrant violations on International Humanitarian Laws and Codes of actual and potential victims.
In Hell is written in first person keeps the emotional overcharge and explains the final guerrillas ambition, sometimes enhanced by Colombian ingenuousness that believes in innocent peace, despite the evident integral Farc’s strategy seeking the seize of political power, by the combination of all the means of struggle.
Reader finds and understands here, how and why, guerrillas commit all sort of crimes in name of the ethereal armed socialist revolution, e.g., kidnapping, children recruitment, illicit drugs traffic, terrorism, massacres, lies derivated from Marxist-Leninist dialectical, and it establishes links of local, regional and national communists bosses with their armed branch.
Other Farc’s aberrations are: premeditated judgments as a result of felonies, inexistent concept of women’s dignity, forced abortions, and persistent elimination of wounded mates.
All of these are characteristic signals of the conflict’s degradation, and the intentional oblivion for the laws of the war and fundamental rights of civilian population, despite guerrillas say all time that they are committed fighting to liberate poor people from rich and capitalist oppression.
Initial publishing of 30,000 copies of En el Infierno (Spanish version), plus 25,000 more copies, translated to English under the title In Hell, shows the painful and astonishing psychological hit, this terrifying chronicle is causing among its readers.
As author I invite you to judge and give your verdict about this evident truth, because while absurd Colombian war continues, thousands of Johnnies are swamped into the mud of irrational violence.


Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín P.
Author