Colombian War Vs. La Violencia

This book illustrates several key issues and social problems that Latin American politics faced and continue to struggle with to this day. The matter of insurgent movements and the counter-insurgency methods that have been throughout the

Colombia has endured vicious conflicts throughout its country for the past 36 years. It is considered to be the one of the most violent places in the world, with a murder rate of eight times greater than the United States. Colombia’s army troops, consisting of the 12th Brigade, rebels, guerillas and paramilitaries, have not made the horrendous war any better. Washington has singled out the 12th Brigade for it’s severe brutality towards civilians to the point of U.S aid suspension. The Colombian people constantly live in fear, not only from criminals, but their own troops as well. In the article, “Columbian Army to Push Human Rights” armed forces commander General Fernando Tapias says, “Civilians should find, in a soldier, a defender of

Currently the United States of America is facing a dilemma with Spain in deciding whether or not to go to war with them. After the explosion of the USS Maine, the public of the United States has been forced into the choice of getting involved. President McKinley doesn't want to go to war since he had a strict thought against it, but still the yellow press continued to broadcast news about anti-Spanish news. News soon started to spread of hateful message of Spain and this started to affect people's ideals. This then created a rally of people believing that war was necessary to go through. Theodore Roosevelt even criticized McKinley for being afraid and weak to get involved in any kind of war. McKinley had strongly disagreed with the public's

With little to no economic activity, an extremely unstable government, natural disaster, and constant emigration Guatemala has faced a large amount of challenges. One of the largest challenges in Latin Americas history being the brutal 36 year Guatemalan Civil War that tore apart the country. Leaving over 200,000 dead, 200,000 in refugee camps, and the nation in extreme poverty.

In Latin America, one of the most violent conflicts between the government and its people occurred during the Cold War. The government wanted to prove its authority, which led to the oppression of the people. In the United States, black citizens faced racism and death as they fought to gain equal rights. White citizens wanted to prevent this struggle for equality and continued to oppress and lynch anyone who tried to change the current system. Compared to the terrorism of the Latin American Dirty Wars, I argue that the history of the lynching of African Americans is the United State’s equivalent of the Dirty Wars due to the desire for compliance with the preferred political system. However, the basis for the United States’ version was race

The United States and Colombia have had a long standing relationship through the course of history. There have been trade agreements signed by the two parties; also negotiations have taken part in regard to development strategies on the part of the US to promote the rule of Democracy and it’s institutions in Colombia, where illegal armed forces sought to control many aspects of the country’s development. Aside from trade agreements the United States and Columbia have also had agreements related to the protection of the environment, renewable energy, control of chemical weapons, and so on. We are going to discuss these concepts in more detail throughout the paper to determine the socio-economic and political relations between the two countries, and try to create a perspective for the future of the relationship between them.

The La Violencia was a 10 year civil war between the Colombian Conservative party and the Colombian Liberal party and after the war they tried to make an alliance with each other. In the end, contradictions between the Liberal and Conservative administrations decidedly

Sanchez, Magaly. (2006). Insecurity and Violence as a New Power Relation in Latin America. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 606, 178-195.

As American expanded its industries and becoming a powerhouse, it’s marked a new chapter in the America history by 1890’s the United Stated wanted to extend its influential over sea following the Manifest Destiny United Stated belief that it’s needed to take a stand, to be more aggressive, and to become a true world power economically and militarily. With Cubans rebellion against Spanish broke out and fueled with many accounts of Spanish brutality against the Cubans written by the Yellow Journalists and the explosion of the battleships Maine, United Stated enter the war with the Cuban to fight against the Spanish. After the Spanish-American war ended United Stated promised Cuba to give it independence, however, U. S force Cuba to signed a Platt Amendment in which America can veto Cuban treaties, buy or rent Cuba naval

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In today’s world Latin America is known as a series of countries that is very distinguished by its divisive political violence, an approach towards democracy troubled by the resistance. Such conditions have created an uncertain part of the mankind, where military dictatorships, radical militant tike brass, commercial investors and democratic reformers have continually competed to bring either Holy Order or self-gratification through aggressive pursuit of ascendancy in its various states and regions. Indeed, this was a feature common to the leftist revolutionist chemical group of Latin United States of America, who were themselves critically implicated in the larger world conflict between two powers. Reflecting the broad stretch of the Frigidness

To start, Luis was born in a country that was devastated like most Latin countries. Throughout his life Luis found himself surrounded by the chaos of his country. Luis was born in 1957 in the town of Genova, Quindio during a time of a brutal a civil war. (McQueen, 2015, p.3). He had born to a family of peasant farmers and business owners. They experience poverty, and also Luis suffered sexual abuse at the hands of two neighbors. Due to the current culture of the country at the time, Luis was too fearful to talk about it. At the time of his birth the Colombia Liberal and Conservative parties were engage in a brutal war. Due to the brutality display in the conflict, the entire country was terrorized. Soldiers, police and leftist were involved and victimized the peasant which is stated in the Article called La Violencia in Colombia, through Stories of the Body by Cristina Rojas.

The Spanish-American War, or as it might be called “little splendid war” as it spread the US powers and acquired victory at a low cost of men and material. However, the war was not very easy for the soldiers that actually went through it. I’ll be discussing the consequences of war that surrounded the soldiers who went through the war, including the consequence of acquiring the Philippines as a territory.

The National Liberation Army or as it is most commonly known the ELN, was formed in Colombia after the age of the “violencia” in 1964, and is the second largest terrorist group in all of Colombia. It started as an idealist group that used to enforce their ideals by using violence and fear. Moreover, it was financed and supported by Cuba; since many of its leaders were

The weakness of the Colombian state has three components which are related to the low probability of success it has at obtaining the monopoly of force. The fulfillment of the constitutional mandate of maintaining security and defending the life, liberty and property of the citizens depends on the ability of the state to obtain that monopoly. The first component is the size and quality of the security forces, especially the armed forces; the second is the actual integration of the territory with appropriate infrastructure; the third component is the effectiveness to obtain the required resources for the proper functioning of