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With the help of millions in U.S. aid, President Alvaro Uribe has reduced violence from the 40-year conflict with armed rebels by sending troops to retake areas under rebel control and demobilize illegal, right-wing militias who once fought guerrillas. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country's largest left-wing rebel group but is still strong in rural areas. U.S. and Colombian officials say the FARC is a drug-trafficking terrorist organization. A rebel car bomb destroyed most of a milk storage plant run by Swiss firm Nestle on Wednesday and the FARC days earlier killed five officers with a bomb attack on a police truck near the border with Ecuador.
