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The Economy of Colombia, 2007.
This paper studies the economy of Colombia and discusses the effects of the economy on everyday life.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 16 sources, MLA, AU$ 67.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the north westernmost country in South America, Colombia. The writer notes that Colombia is the second most populated South American country next to Brazil and the majority of the population lives in the mountainous cities around the capital of Bogota. The writer points out that with this intense congregation of people in one area, the economy of Colombia is poor and unstable. This paper attempts to explain why the economy has fluctuated during the last thirty years and gives examples of life in Colombia as a result of an ever-changing economy.
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"In 1999, Colombia suffered a recession as a result of low world oil prices, reduced export demand, and increased guerilla violence throughout the country. This caused an increase in unemployment, increased drug usage and sales, and devaluation of the Colombian peso. In 1999 at the time of the recession approximately 17.7% of the Colombia people were living at or below the national poverty line."
"As a result of the 1999 Colombian recession, unemployment quickly rose. There were more people in Colombia than jobs. Many companies closed because they could not afford to pay their employees. In the year 2000, the unemployment rate in Colombia reached 20%. This rate did not stay at 20% for long because of the instability in the Colombian economy, by 2006 the unemployment rate had improved and was at 13% which also decreased poverty and gained confidence among the people in foreign and domestic affairs."
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Colombia and the United States, 2004.
This paper discusses the geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural differences between Colombia and the United States.
1,485 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper explains that United States and Colombia share a hemisphere, a legacy of European colonization, rough equivalents in terms of life expectancy and literacy, and both appear to be waging two wars at the same time; however, the comparison largely ends there. The author points out that Colombia is treading a very thin line as it seeks to balance the need to continue to pursue its aggressive economic reforms while prosecuting untenable wars against the drug traffickers and insurgents who continue to represent a major threat to the political stability of the nation. The paper stresses that, if stabilized, Colombia could become one of the leading industrialized nations of the world, based on its hard-working and highly literate population.
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"Today, Colombia still strongly reflects its legacy as a colony of Spain, and is frequently referred to as the most Roman Catholic of the South American countries; the majority of the Colombian people are proud of the relative purity of their Spanish language. The country?s population is heavily mestizo, a term which describes those of European and Indian descent; there are also significant minorities of European and African ancestry. The country?s economy is traditionally agricultural based, especially its world-famous coffee as well as fruit production; however, industries and services are assuming increasing importance. Colombia has the most population of any of the Spanish-speaking nations in South America; more than one-third of its inhabitants live in the six biggest metropolitan areas, of which Bogot? is the largest. Despite the advantages of climate and an abundance of natural resources, Colombia?s political instability has been historically linked with the inequitable distribution of wealth, and the illicit trade in drugs (primarily cocaine) continues to represent a major challenges to the stability of life in Colombian life."
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Chaos In Colombia: La Violencia, 2008.
This paper describes a period in the history of the country of Colombia from 1948 to 1958 called La Violencia, which took over 200,000 lives.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper explains that, on April 9, 1948, in Columbia, the Liberal presidential candidate, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, was assassinated, which is believed to have triggered the ensuing violent era known as La Violencia. The author points out that the La Violencia era was an extremely complex event involving both partisan political rivalry and hostile guerrillas throughout Colombia except for the southern portion and parts of the Caribbean Coast. The paper relates that, in 1958, the creation of the National Front ended the fighting between the political parties, but Colombia still to this day is fighting with the armed peasants and guerrillas. The paper concludes that the primary cause of this long, horrific period of internal chaos was the refusal of consecutive governments to listen to the people's demands for social and economic change due to the partisan political rivalry.
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"The tension started in 1946 when, Conservative Mariano Ospina Perez assumed office and was in charge of the difficult task of ruling from a minority position, since the Liberals controlled Congress. Ospina tried including Liberals into the government.6 In the meantime, the amount of political arguments were increasing in the countryside. The Conservatives thought the answer was what they had always believed to be the answer, violence. Liberals and their movements were led by the leadership of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. He demanded that Ospina should deal with the important social needs of the developing nation."
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Environmental Issues of Uganda, India and Colombia, 2003.
A comparative analysis of biodiversity losses occurring in Uganda, India, and Colombia.
3,462 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 24 sources, MLA, AU$ 142.95
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This paper examines how, despite their apparent dissimilarities, the nations of Uganda, India, and Colombia are united by their biodiversity emergencies. In all of these impoverished nations, wildlife is being lost at an alarming rate. It shows how in India, poaching is to blame, while Uganda and Colombia must both combat years of civil unrest to protect their wildlife. It discusses how all three countries must employ both governmental and private agencies in order to save their disappearing wildlife.
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"In addition to its coal reserves, India has great diamond mines. Diamonds are the country's largest export, providing it with $6.6 billion a year (Kripalani 2000). Currently, India's mines are controlled by small-community based companies (Kripalani 2000). Steps have been taken by the federal government to bring in outside organizations with advanced mining equipment, such as De Beers Consolidated Mines (Kripalani 2000). However, those efforts have been greatly opposed by locals, who illegally dig for diamonds and fear losing profits to foreigners (Kazmin 1998). In addition to diamond mining, India is involved in diamond cutting and polishing. Because of this, nine out of ten diamonds sold worldwide pass through India (Kripalani 2000). In smaller quantities than its coal and diamonds, India also contains petroleum, iron ore, many different minerals, and natural gas (India 1999)."
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Colombia, 2002.
This paper discusses Colombia's debt problem.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This paper re-evaluating the problem of Colombia's debt.
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Drugs In Colombia, 1999.
Examines Colombia's criminal justice system in context of the anti-drug fight. Discusses laws, extradition, courts, police, corruption, punishment, organized crime and rebel guerillas.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 162.95
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"I. Introduction
The South American nation of Colombia is the focal point of the worldwide war against illegal drugs. As a result, international scrutiny has cast a harsh spotlight on that country's laws, courts, and police. This paper will analyze Colombia's criminal justice system, from the judges to the police to organized crime, and the role that each group plays in Colombian society. This paper also will examine the role of the United States in Colombian society, and compare the two nations' criminal justice systems.
II. Colombian Law
Colombia revamped its constitution in 1991, implementing numerous changes designed to enhance the rule of law in a nation long known for being somewhat lawless. Those changes, however ..."
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Democracy in Colombia, 2005.
A paper looking at whether Columbia should be considered a democracy.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 34.95
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This paper debates the issue of whether Colombia is a democracy, examining both the political elements that mark the country as a democracy as well as those elements within the country that threaten democratic rule.
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"At issue in this report is the question of whether or not Colombia is a democracy. If one assumes that a country which holds regularly scheduled public elections in which adult citizens of both genders are entitled to vote for officials at the regional and national levels, one must conclude that Colombia is a democracy. A democracy but of many warts. At the same time Colombia is not a democracy without deep troubles. It has experienced decades of internal dissent resulting in various insurgencies and civil..."
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"Violence In Colombia" ( Editor Charles Bergquist, et al. ), 1999.
Assesses a collection of articles on the history of political and drugs-related violence in this Latin American nation.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 16 sources, AU$ 92.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Violence in Colombia, a collection of academic essays dealing with the history and modern record of the intersection of political, social, and criminal activity in Colombia in the twentieth century, as well as information relevant to the subject that has been developed since the publication of the book. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the pattern of ideas elaborated in the essays and the relevance of the collection to political discourse of Colombia and then to discuss how the culture of violence has affected politics, society, and economics in Colombia, both in the past and in the future.
The principal reason for Violence in Colombia's publication appears to have been to explain how the widely reported incidents of violence in Colombia in the modern period evolved from the ..."
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Violence In Colombia, 1999.
Analyzes historical and cultural causes and effects of political and drug-related violence in the Andean region. Discusses leadership, socioeconomics, guerillas, oppression, assassinations, the role of the military and governmen and relations with the U.
7,875 words (approx. 31.5 pages), 42 sources, AU$ 197.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the phenomenon of modern-day violence in the Andean region, particularly Colombia. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the historical, social, political, and economic context in which Andean violence needs to be understood, and then to discuss whether violence, fostered in the form of domestic government policy and as a consequence of government policies of such engaged nations as the U.S., is in fact a realistic means of putting an end to the apparently incessant violence in the region. That is, is the "carrot" stronger or more effective than the "stick" in the project of breaking the cycle of murder and suffering plaguing the Andean region?
For the last sixty years, Colombians and neighboring countries have been using the stick, praying, as it seems, that one ..."
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Peru, 2004.
An overview of the issues caused by a struggling economy, deforestation, and the illicit drug trade in Peru.
2,066 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 95.95
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This paper discusses how Peru faces many problems common to many developing countries around the world, including economic difficulties. The problems include underdevelopment in its infrastructure, including underdevelopment in its health, education, industrial, and transport sectors, and environmental difficulties, including deforestation, overgrazing, desertification, pollution; there is severe air pollution in Lima and river pollution from unregulated industries. It also examines how Peru has the added problem of coca and the illicit drugs trade. The paper looks at three global issues, in particular, the struggling economy, deforestation, and the illicit drug trade, and discusses how they directly affect the country of Peru. It also analyzes these three issues in relation to three other countries, Colombia (an Andean neighbor), Uganda (an African example of a developing country), and India (an Asian example of a developing country).
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"In terms of the problem of illicit drugs, Uganda and India are not fair comparisons with Peru, as these two countries do not suffer from such a problem: Uganda has problems with smuggling of precious stones, but not drugs. The direct comparison here will therefore again be Colombia. As we have seen, those connected with the illegal drug trade in Colombia import coca leaves from Peru for processing to cocaine, for export to drug-users in the US and Europe. The same problems, i.e., falsely inflated economies, leading to unemployment and economic difficulties upon the collapse of this economy, also apply to Colombia. Businesses and communities in the heart of Cali have been destroyed by coca dollars, and again through their withdrawal from the local economy."
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Use of Herbicides, 2008.
This paper looks at the history of the U.S. war on drugs, with specific attention devoted to the use of herbicides as an instrument to overcome Colombia's illicit drug trade.
1,980 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 91.95
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In this article, the writer outlines the controversial topic of aerial spraying or fumigation in Colombia as it pertains to efforts to destroy the country's illicit drug trade. To really understand the issue, however, the writer discusses the lengthy history of narcotics in Colombia, the history of the American war on drugs and the types of drugs that appear most prevalent in Colombia. From there, time is devoted to looking at the issue of aerial spraying, why it seemed like a good idea when first conceived, and precisely what impact it has had upon Colombia. In the final analysis, the writer maintains that aerial spraying seems superficially to be an effective means of thwarting the drug trafficking problem in Colombia, but it may simply be a needless distraction diverting resources and expertise away from worthwhile alternatives.
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"The history of the war on drugs is a long and important one, but it is necessary first to place it within the context of the even longer history of Colombia as a major international distributor of illicit narcotics. To begin with, marijuana cultivation in Colombia first emerged during the initial decade of the twentieth century. By as early as the 1930s, some cultivation was taking place among the Costeno black population on Barranquilla and urban criminals located in this territory were routinely smoking marijuana. Additionally, during the course of the Second World War, hemp cultivation muscled its way to the forefront courtesy the growing demand for large-scale fiber production as one part of the much larger war effort. Finally, by the latter part of the 1960s and by the early 1970s, marijuana production in Colombia became a fairly huge and lucrative industry in response to a growing demand for such a good in the United States."
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Colombian Drug Trade, 2002.
A paper which examines the effects of the drug trade between Colombia and the United States.
2,824 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 123.95
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The paper shows that despite the biasness of the view that 'Colombia equals drug marketing', the truth remains that much of the world?s cocaine does originate in Colombia. This fact has important consequences for Colombia's standing in the world as well as for its relationship with the United States. This paper examines some of the consequences for the relationship between the two countries since political and economic life in Colombia have become linked to the trade in cocaine. The paper also examines how the war against drugs has been merged with the war against terrorism by the American government.
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"The war on drugs (primarily those coming from Colombia) and the war on terrorism are currently linked in American political debate because the same political philosophy supports both and the same governmental infrastructural tools and strategies can be used in both of these wars.
The U.S. government is in fact currently engaged in trying to link the war on drugs with the war on terrorism in the mind of the public ? not just in the sense that the two are both evils that are currently facing American society and polity but in the sense that there are actual, direct connections between the two."
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NarcoPolitics In Columbia, 1997.
It describes about drugs trades in Columbia.Colombia's extensive history of marijuana trafficking demonstrates that law enforcement pressure in a particular cultivation area is compensated by production and trafficking increases elsewhere. Trafficking or
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Despite the anti-drug triumphs of Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar's surrender in 1991 and his subsequent death soont hereafter, rumors about the demise of the huge Medellin drug cartel proved false. Although Colombia's economy seemingly improved and is "the best performing in Latin America" (Salloum, 1994), it is still drug-dependent and that dependency seems largely intermingled with the country's political system. As for the power of the government to 'control' the drug cartels and their members, it should be pointed out that even Pablo Escobar was imprisoned in and escaped from a luxurious and supposedly "maximum-security prison" (Smith, 1996). Yet the Colombian government continues to claim that it is in control and, together with the United States, is allegedly "winning the war on drugs." And much like the U.S. government it appears to be overtly hypocritical in making such claims : For Colombia is a country whose twentieth century history is riddled with political corruption, scandal, and government-intertwined drug-trafficking. It is an abundant and obvious problem; one that could be attacked openly-- yet seems to be genuinely assaulted only minimally by its political "enemies"...
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Colombia, the oldest Latin American democracy, lost its independence in 1991, when Gaviria and the assembly changed the constitution to amend currency and extradition policies, among other things, and accepted the business of drug-trafficking as a lesser of two evils. The driving force behind this great change was greed and the tool was cocaine. Armed with enormous financial resources, drug cartels have reportedly penetrated and corrupted the government, subverted commerce and industry, and eroded the individual's trust in government. Despite the anti-drug triumphs of Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar's surrender in 1991 and his subsequent death soonthereafter, rumors about the demise of the huge Medellin drug cartel proved false
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Drugs and Power in Columbia, 2005.
Examines the relationships of the drug trade to money, power and violence in Colombia.
2,888 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 124.95
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This paper examines how Pablo Escobar Gaviria, as well as his closest associates of the Medellin cartel, managed to virtually dominate the nation of Colombia throughout the 1980s and into the beginning of the 1990s. Among the forces used to attain this unbelievable level of power and dominance were huge, trained armies, advanced assault weapons, widespread corruption and bribery and various violent methods that often included cold-blooded murder. The paper shows that the effects of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel are still felt strongly today all over Colombia. The paper argues that constructive action must be taken to ensure that neither an individual nor a drug cartel ever rise to their level of power again.
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"By the beginning of the 1990s Pablo Escobar had built the largest and most lucrative illegal, undercover industry that the world had ever seen. In 1989 his cartel controlled an estimated 75 percent of the world's cocaine supply, and he himself had become a multi-billionaire (Jordan 82). On August 18 of that same year, both a Colombian police commandant and the front-running Liberal party presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan were assassinated. By the end of the night the Colombian government issued an emergency decree against the entire drug trade, and six days later, the Medellin cartel declared a war against the government and the industrial and political oligarchy."
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Current Events in Latin America, 2002.
This paper discusses drug wars, civil unrest, and guerrilla activities in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 116.95
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This paper discusses drug wars, civil unrest, and guerrilla activities in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and compares and contrasts how these issues would or would not affect the four countries.
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Coming to America, 2006.
A personal essay about coming to America from Colombia.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 60.95
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This personal essays shares the author's emotions and experiences about moving to America as a teenager from Colombia. The author had grown up in a privileged family, who gave up everything when they relocated to the U.S. This narrative shares anecdotes and memories of the author's journey and her difficult adjustment period, including financial difficulties and learning the English language.
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"In school, America was always a giant up North, where there were lots of rich people, and where many used the drugs that were grown and exported from Colombia that made some people very rich and dangerous. This giant was now our destination. My whole family was able to leave without trouble. But, we left without money. We left with hope. That hope, for my parents, was that their children could grow up in peace and silence! Yes, silence! It was so good to be able to sleep at night without the noise of battle and arrests and fighting. If there is anything I first remember about coming to America it was that at night you could sleep without being disturbed."
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