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Central Colombia | Colombia News - Colombia Reports
January 26, 2016. Authorities in central Colombia have closed six national parks amid fears that drought caused by weather phenomenon “El Niño” could spur forest fires. Read more. 1 … 5. Central Colombia is filled with tourism possibilities. The region around Bogota offers extreme sports, colonial towns and religious monuments.
Poverty and inequality - Colombia Reports
Sep 25, 2023 · Poverty in Colombia decreased in last year after a major surge caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.. Colombia’s poverty rate. Colombia poverty rate dropped slightly in 2022, the statistics agency DANE said in its annual report. According to the DANE, almost 19 million people lived off less than $97,94 (COP396,864) per month last year.
The wars for Colombia's cocaine containers | Part 4: Cartagena
Sep 2, 2022 · The AGC and Cartagena’s gangs. An estimated 36 gangs control Cartagena’s organized crime rackets and the drug trafficking routes to the container terminal in the south of the port city.. The AGC’s “Caribbean Heroes” front controls the north of the Bolivar province and the routes that connect inland cocaine production facilities to Cartagena. ...
Understanding Colombia's Conflict: Inequality
Jan 7, 2015 · Closely linked to income inequality, and arguably playing an even more central role in Colombia’s conflict, is the level of land concentration and inequality. According to the United States Development Agency (USAID), just 0.4% of the population owns 62% of the country’s best land. Well under half of the arable land (22-40%) is cultivated ...
Illegal armed groups (maps) | Colombia Reports
Oct 3, 2021 · The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) are Colombia’s largest illegal armed group with between 3,000 and 7,000 combatants. They are called the “Gulf Clan” by the government. The group is led by dissident former members of demobilized paramilitary umbrella organization AUC who abandoned their former group’s demobilization ...
Understanding the causes of Colombia’s conflict: land ownership
Apr 3, 2018 · Land reforms vs counter reforms. Between 1823 and 1931, the state offloaded vast chunks of land in order to pay off debts accrued during the independence war. The result, nearly 30% of all farm land in Colombia was owned by the top 0.2%, according to conflict investigators, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
25 years after Andres Escobar’s death, threats of violence still …
Adam Veitch July 2, 2019. Andres Escobar. Exactly 25 years ago, the bodyguard of a paramilitary warlord shot and killed one of Colombia’s most beloved footballers outside a Medellin nightclub. The violence did not end with that traumatic experience. The callousness and brutality of the murder of “the other Escobar” was typical of the ...
Understanding Colombia’s armed conflict: The role of drugs
Jan 14, 2015 · While not widely considered a cause, drug trafficking has played a mayor role in Colombia’s armed conflict as it has been the main source of income for the illegal armed groups involved in the violence. In much of the world, Colombia is virtually synonymous with narco-trafficking. Cocaine, in particular, has become closely associated with this Andean nation, even though Peru took over is the ...
Understanding the causes of Colombia’s conflict: political exclusion
Jan 5, 2015 · A central aspect of today’s peace talks. Since the 19th century, Liberals and Conservatives have dominated the political landscape, and the exclusion of other significant forces in political should be seen as a central cause of the conflict in Colombia. Just recently, the FARC explicitly cited the phenomenon as such in a communique: “the ...