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Columbia
Title: Columbia
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1049 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Columbia
Colombia
Introduction
Background: Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the …showed first 75 words of 1049 total…
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Romanticism legalist, very rooted in the Colombian tradition, leaves the country made a break in front of triple plague of the drug trafficking, the guerrilla and the paramilitary groups. The cost of this war is considerable: it is estimated at 5 billion dollars a year, a fifth of the foreign debt of the country. And the effects are felt at first and above all in the most modest layers of the population.
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