Wretchard, your poignant little reminiscence brings up a question to me.

You said the fall of the poultry safe house was due most likely to a mole.

It is not hard to imagine why someone would choose to infiltrate the FARC. Taking them down would make any decent person feel proud.

But what would cause someone to spy for Marcos? Threats against their family? Or fame and glory?

Or just fear?

Or just a love of evil? I recently read an account of the life of Hannah Reitsch, the famous German aviatrix, as they called them in those days. With Germany and ruins and the true horror of the Nazi regime revealed to anyone with eyes, she remained a committed Nazi. She was one of the very last people to see Hitler alive; he gave her a suicide pill and 34 years later, in 1979, she used it to commit suicide. Loyalty is one thing, but such love of evil is inexplicable.