Simon Bolivar: The Drug Trade In Colombia

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There is a lot of history in Colombia! Independence was not made until Simon Bolivar made an army to defeat spanish troops from the battle of Boyaca in 1819. The FARC and the AUC had business with the drug trade. In 1970 and 1980 the Colombian industry grew from where it was in the past. In the year 1990 a national assembly with indigenous groups, people originally from the area country and the nontraditional parties got together to rewrite the constitution in the year 1886.

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