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Colombia Social Problems

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Immigration is one of the biggest social problems Colombia has had since the late 1900’s. Immigration is a process where people leave their home country or region to establish a new home in another place. Initially, the main destinations Colombians chose to emigrate were the United States and Spain. Near the end of the 1900’s, among all the developed countries, the United States was the one accepting the most immigrants (Datesman, Cramdall, Keanny 5). Lately, other countries like Italy, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and Israel have become favorite destinations for many Colombians. There are many reasons why people leave Colombia. However, the most relevant are poverty, violence and unemployment.
There is a lot of poverty in Colombia. Poverty happens when people do not have enough resources to meet at least their physical needs. They are also considered essential needs. It is assumed that the government must assure that all individuals meet at least their physical needs. Nevertheless, the Colombian government is …show more content…

FARC is one of the world’s richest guerrillas armies. Their income is the result of murders, kidnappings, illegal drug trade, extortion, activation of bombs, and attacks leaving many deaths in the country. In 2000, many people in Colombia were kidnapped because of their beliefs or wealth, others because they were present when the guerrilla was stopping people on the roads. In the last 10 years, the number of kidnappings has decreased. Extortion is one of the biggest social problems Colombia has. There are different kinds of extortion. The most popular is where the victims are the owners of small businesses. These people are forced to make daily payments; otherwise, they are

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They are heavily involved in the drug trade with about sixty-five of the FARC's 110 operational units being involved in some aspect of the drug trade. According to a US justice department indictment in 2006, the FARC supplies more than 50% of the world's cocaine and more than 60% of the cocaine entering the US. FARC was not initially involved in direct drug cultivation, trafficking, or trans-shipment prior to or during the 1980s. Instead, it maintained a system of taxation on the production that took place in the territories that they controlled, in exchange for protecting the growers and establishing law and order in these regions by implementing its own rules and regulations. During the 1990s, FARC expanded its operations, in some areas, to include trafficking and production, which had provided a significant portion of its funding.

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Immigrants face a great deal of hardship on coming to America. Many of these immigrants were on uneducated and fell into the trap of Robber Barons. During the Great Migration (1880-1921) about 56% of the immigrants migrated to the United States not knowing what to expect. Therefore, when coming to America many of the defenseless immigrants had to pay a price. “The shipping industry guarantee good profit, but they had to send their children which caused their family to be separated, this was because these immigrants did not have enough money to have them and their children going together” ( Morgan Prezi).

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I. Rank R., Mark.2011. “Rethinking American Poverty.” Context 10(2):16-21. II. Misconceptions the public has about poverty mostly who is responsible for preventing it.

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Con side Claim: United States Foreign policy has improved individual’s human rights in the country of Columbia. Data: Violence and kidnapping has also gone down by 50%. Warrant: less violence shows improvement in a country Backing: Army sergeant John f said plan Columbia rescued Colombia from its failed state.

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James Petras and Michael Brescia (2000) argue in his article “The FARC faces the Empire” that the group is the dominant political force in over half of the municipalities, with an army of 18,000 fighters approximately and they had hundreds of thousands of supporters throughout the country. Through their history they had have external economical supporters. As the military force of the Colombian Communist Party, has supported the distribution of wealth, but also had added to their curriculum several armed attacks as hijackings, assassinations and also kidnappings, executing, between others. The conflict has been evolving through the years but it seems like the first ideologies of the group turn into a new direction, which of course means is attracting international interest and

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In 1976, the Republic of Colombia saw the rise of the Medellín Cartel, an organization that not only drastically transformed cocaine production but also redefined the standard of a successful narco-trafficking group. Formed by the Ochoa Vázquez brothers Jorge Luis, Juan David, and Fabio, jointly with Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Carlos Lehder and most famous of all Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin Cartel reigned as the kings of cocaine until 1993. Taking the name of the city where the group of prominent criminals united, the Medellin Cartel's prominence in the drug trade came to characterize an era in narcotics trafficking that has since influenced succeeding drug organizations. This paper will provide a detailed look at the formation

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The representation of the interests of Colombia is participating in the negotiations, the dispute settlement processes in our interest and in meetings in which are discussed issues regular administration and enforcement of the WTO agreements. Colombia expressed its interest directly through formal and informal groups that there is common interests. Coalitions are formed depending on the issues and national interests, this explains why they are not always integrated by the same partners. " This openness and trade liberalization has led to the importation of products, where the agricultural sector has been one of the most disadvantaged for reasons that hinder their good development as the high cost of supplies for cultivation, armed groups, drug trafficking and the lack presence of government support programs and plans to increase the safety and permanence of the rural population in agricultural

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Most Colombians are being forced out of their homes and forced to live on the streets. Some are threatened and harmed and are pulled and have to live on the streets. Paramilitaries will enter a region and start to execute local community leaders. This right is being broken by small armies destroying the civilians and also harming them and sometimes killing them. Other problems currently in Colombia are deforestation and the environmental issues.

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