Columbia
Background: Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the government. While Bogota continues to try to negotiate a settlement, neighboring countries worry about the violence spilling over their borders.note: includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, Serrana Bank, and Serranilla Bank Area - comparative: slightly less than three times the size of Montana Climate: tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands highest point: Nevado del Huila 5,750 m Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, emeralds, hydropowerPopulation: 39,685,655 (July 2000 est.)
Transformed later into groups of self-defence, indoctrinated by the communist Party, they were the ferment of the FARC. Insurrectionary movement is finally endowed with a considerable economic power, based on drug's money, removals, attacks and tax forced taken on the incomes of the farmers and the breeders. A strategy at the same moment military, political and economic. ) Population below poverty line: 17. ) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,200 (1999 est. All these exactions had a disastrous effect in the Colombian economy, what deteriorated only poverty. The civil war which followed urged numerous liberals to take refuge with plains and mountains. ) Ethnic groups: mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% Religions: Roman Catholic 90% Languages: Spanish GovernmentGovernment type: republic; executive branch dominates government structure Capital: Bogota Administrative divisions: 32 departmentsIndependence: 20 July 1810 (from Spain) Flag description: three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double-width), blue, and red; similar to the flag of Ecuador, which is longer and bears the Ecuadorian coat of arms superimposed in the centerEconomyGDP: purchasing power parity - $245. It is not a civil war; it does not divide the nation, it terrorizes it only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. The second reason which explains the dimension reached by the Colombian subversion in four decades is the efficiency of its strategy. ars: 63%, 65 years and over: 5%Population growth rate: 1. Violence reaches its paroxysm with the murder of the liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, on April 9, 1948, murder which starts one of the most terrible popular explosions of all the history of the continent: first-rate " Bogotazo ".
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