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/ MESETAS, Colombia — Im with a small group of tourists preparing to rappel down a 150-foot canyon next to a waterfall in southern Colombia. Its scary, but were in good hands, with guides intimately familiar with this jungle terrain. Thats because the guides patrolled here years ago as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist rebel group known as the FARC. In fact, to escape from army troops, the rebels sometimes rappelled down cliffs like these using nothing m...