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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 ...
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.
According to a study by Colombia's National Centre for Historical Memory, 220,000 people have died in the conflict between 1958 and 2013, most of them civilians (177,307 civilians and 40,787 fighters) and more than five million civilians were forced from their homes between 1985 and 2012, generating the world's second largest population of ...
The rankings of 141 nations were compiled by the World Economic Forum, and these are some dangerous destinations that you might want to leave off of your bucket list. According to the list ...
Colombia's illicit drug trade is the largest in the world, approximately half of the global supply of cocaine is produced in Colombia. In 2016, 18 million people used the drug worldwide, consuming hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the cocaine produced annually in the Andean region. [ 1 ]
The Darien Gap is one of the world’s most dangerous migrant crossings. U.S., Panama, Colombia agree to crack down on one of world’s most dangerous migrant crossings Skip to main content
The US, the world's largest consumer of cocaine [4] and other illegal drugs, intervened in Colombia throughout this period in an attempt to cut off the supply of these drugs to the US. The drug barons of Colombia , such as Pablo Escobar and José Rodríguez Gacha , were long considered by authorities to be among the most dangerous, wealthy, and ...
The State Department is warning Americas to "reconsider" visiting Jamaica and Colombia due to safety risks. Here's what travelers should know. State Department urges travelers to ‘reconsider ...