Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran
             Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the
             Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by
             funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of
             the countryside are under guerilla 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. This is the country named for
             Christopher Columbus it is in the Northwest corner of South America. It is a
             Andean and a Caribbean nation and the only one on the continent with Atlantic
             and Pacific coastlines. The population of this country which is roughly three
             Columbia is Spanish. There are many diffent ethnic groups here, the main six
             are the Mestizoes which cover fifty-eight percent, the Whites which cover twenty
             percent, the Mulattoes which cover fourteen percent, the Blacks which cover four
             percent, the mixed black and Amerindians which cover two percent, and last but
             not least the Amerindians which cover one percent.
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