al life" has contributed to a past recession, the exodus of the middle and upper class, and the FARC's prep for urban warfare. Bogota's electrical grid is a constant target.
             Since the first Bush, the US had problems weighing drug removal beside locals fighting insurgencies, not wanting to drain its resources getting rid of drugs without first controlling domestic revolts. By the mid-90s, as coca production migrated, Congress began to monitor the military's human rights abuses and drug money given to armed groups. Principal drug cartels faltered, but "boutique" or baby cartels emerged. In this era of "counter land reform," drug lords bought
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