“…19 In 1958 a "contrived stability" was restored under a political settlement known as the "Fruente Nacionaf (National Front), where Conservatives and Liberals shared political power and alternated the presidency. 20 However, a "hardcore" rural guerilla group of former Liberal factions never accepted a peace offering of amnesty and became holdouts in "county-sized redoubts that defied the Colombian Army for years." 21 Crime increased in the countryside.…”