The FARC cartel was also the first book that enhanced the USA Department of State to define the FARC guerrillas like a terrorist and cocaine traffic group, despite the proofs that individuals like Myles Frechette ex USA Ambassador in Colombia, who denied this true.
The first volume of the Farc Cartel covers the period 1978-1996, and its content obviously invites the readers to complete the information reading the Volume II, that is covering the period 1996-2007 and Volume III that is covering the period 2007-2015.
50,000 copies of the Volumen I in Spanish published as El Cartel de las FARC is the main proof of the academic and historic scope of this book.
Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarin Pulido is a Colombian Military Officer on retirement, specialized in counterterrorism, National Security, and Geopolitics. Villamarin is the author of 26 books and more than 900 articles related to themes that he is an expert.
His book In Hell is the base for a film in Hollywood.
Some of his books have been translated into Portuguese, Polish, English, German, and French.
Colonel Villamarin has participated as a panelist or individual analyst in several TV opinion shows or as a speaker in Colleges, Universities, and centers of political studies.
The FARC Cartel has been one of his star-books.