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  2. Crime in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Colombia has a high crime rate due to being a center for the cultivation and trafficking of cocaine.The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity conflict between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to ...

  3. National Anthem of Colombia - Wikipedia

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    The song became very popular and was quickly adopted, albeit spontaneously, as the national anthem of Colombia. It was made official through Law 33 of 18 October 1920. Colombian musician José Rozo Contreras [ es ] reviewed the scores and prepared the transcriptions for symphonic band, which was adopted as an official version by decree 1963 of ...

  4. Crime and violence in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.

  5. Exclusive-Peace deal with Colombia unlikely before end of ...

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    The EMC - founded by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels who reject the 2016 peace deal signed by that group - began its own talks with the Petro government ...

  6. 2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Venezuela-Colombia borderlands are considered to be one of the most dangerous borderlands in the world, as the territory is overrun by a variety of non-state actors consistently involved in turf wars. [2] These so-called turf wars are largely a result of the influence that organized crime groups (OCGs) have at the border.

  7. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean - Wikipedia

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    "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (originally "Columbia, the Land of the Brave") is an American patriotic song which was popular in the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composed c. 1843, it was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other songs.

  8. Colombia overcome Jamaica – and show why they will scare England

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    Colombia 1-0 Jamaica: Catalina Usme’s winner set up a World Cup quarter-final with England as the South Americans target another historic upset

  9. Anti-Colombian sentiment - Wikipedia

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    US movies portraying Colombia, for example, often do so from a US-centrist perspective, trivializing Colombian society as "rural", "primitive", "backwards" or "inherently violent" and establishing a superiority complex in favor of the United States, sometimes not even filming the movie in Colombia or with Colombians, often mistaking aspects of ...