 According to P. W. Singer the FARC attack on the Guatape hydroelectric facility in 1998 involved militants as young as eight years old and a 2001 FARC training video depicted boys as young as 11 working with missiles.The group has also taken in children from Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador.The Colombian government's security forces do not officially recruit children as the legal age for both compulsory and voluntary recruitment has been set at 18.