Corruption in colombia

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Colombia is west of Venezuela and north of Peru and Ecuador. Colombia borders the Caribbean sea and is located in south America.

Colombia is a country with extreme corruption and high violence, they are also known for drug trafficking. Colombia is one of the three countries that came from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830. There has been a very long conflict between government forces and anti-government insurgents. One of the main anti-government forces is FARC (revolutionary armed forces of Colombia) who are heavily funded by drug trade. This is affecting the government very badly and they are killing civilians which damages the economy of Colombia this causes problems as they need to put more money into warfare related sources to try stop the guerrilla warfare which means less money and less focus on poverty. This will be investigating how Colombia can fix poverty and what they should do about it. Colombias has a GDP of $526.5 billion (2013)

In Colombia, politics has been a problem for a long time since 1830 when Gran Colombia split up. Colombia has been working very hard on...

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