Columbian Displacement Report

According to a report issued in 2005 by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, approximately 100 million individuals are homeless globally (Bywaters, Eileen, and Napier 150). This population has no shelter and must sleep in doorways, on sidewalks, under bridges, in incomplete buildings, and in parks. They also resort to places such as public buildings and bus and railway stations. Night shelters are also significant, as they offer a roof over their heads. The issue of homelessness is extremely pervasive and its causes are varied. At the most basic economic level, poverty and unemployment are core factors that spearhead homelessness. This is because the destitute simply lack the capacity to obtain and maintain shelter.

The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vise versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and also diseases to the New World.

The diseases that the European explorers brought over, and the effect they had on the Native Americans, were by far the worst parts of the Columbian Exchange. While some people may believe that war and mistreatment of the Natives were what caused 80-95% of them to perish, the actual cause was diseases like measles and small pox. According to Dinesh D’Souza, before the Europeans arrived, there was between 15 and 20 million Indians, but 150 years later, there was only a small amount left. In “The Crimes of Christopher Columbus”, D’Souza adds that since the Indians hadn’t seen those types of diseases before, they had not yet developed any resistance or immunity to them. The purpose of that statement is to explain why so many Indians were affected

The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vise versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and also diseases to the New World.

The Columbian Exchange is the period of time after Columbus discovery of the Americas in 1942 where there was an exchange of diseases, trade, crops, and migration between the New World and the Old World. First the Columbian Exchange caused a large majority of deaths by diseases for the Native American. The Europeans exposed the natives to sicknesses they had never been exposed to before and thus they had built no immunity or defense to them. Although several diseases were transferred from the old world to the new world the deadliest includes smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria (Nunn). Smallpox was often misdiagnosed and killed thousands of Indians. It is estimated that in 1492 there were between

Contact between Native Americans and Europeans brought changes to European societies through three ways. First, with many new resources, Europeans were able to start the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange was basically the transfer of new resources and technology from the New World to the Old World and from the Old World to the New World. Second, since new types of crops were introduced to the Europeans, these new crops improved many of the European’s diets. For an example, before potatoes were introduced to the Old World, grains and wheat were the main parts of the European diets. But, after potatoes were introduced to the European countries, potatoes became the substitutions for grain and wheat because they were convenient to cultivate.

The Columbian Exchange was an extensive transportation of farm animals, plants, culture, people, and ideas between North America and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries. What derived during that period was a massive change between both hemispheres which brought good and bad things. After Columbus reached the New World in 1492, the Pilgrims fled their home land to seek for “freedom” to worship as Christians; where in Europe it was forbidden to do so, but they were ready to sacrifice everything they had there to travel to a new territory (America) in new hopes that their children will be able to learn about Christianity

The FARC is Colombia’s largest terror group. The FARC was established in 1964. The FARC began with farmers and agricultural workers who abandoned their positions to fight inequalities in Colombia. The FARC revolves around a Marxist-Leninist ideology. The FARCs early establishment suffered losses within its organization due to consistent military raids conducted by the Columbian Forces in order to disrupt or destroy the group. As the fight continued, those losses changed the leadership constantly through the years. The FARC has adapted and overcame many obstacles as the Colombian Government continues its fight against the terror group. As the fight continued through the years, the FARCs ability to change their tactics and weapons advanced. With more powerful weapons through the years and their ability to become more organized, the FARCs ability to fight back became more powerful.

The columbian exchange opened new doors for trade between the New World (America), the Old (Europe) and Africa. The exchange included the transfer of food, slaves, alcohol, raw materials, and processed goods.

The alternative crop programs the US proposed to replace coca failed for various reasons. The unstable political situation made the area too dangerous to bring in “agronomists, engineers, and project specialists” to survey the land (Kirk 265). Even if farmers had been successful in growing alternative crops, the Colombian market for legal crops such as corn, yucca, coffee and chocolate was already “battered by global shifts in price.”(Kirk 264) Legal crops had to be transported on poor roads and farmers had to wait months to be paid for their goods. These were no competition for coca which was paid for immediately, often times with American cash, and transported without any charge to the farmers (Kirk 243).

Nowadays, when someone thinks of Colombia, they unfortunately almost always think of two things, coffee and cocaine (with its associated guerilla warfare). It is true that during the last 50 years these two products, one legal, and the other not, have been great monetary contributors to the Colombian economy. Coffee is Colombia’s principal agricultural product, and it is also the country’s second largest export. The production of coffee uses 300,000 farms and employs almost one million people (Steiner 6). Conversely, cocaine is a completely illegal product, but it earns almost twice as much money as coffee (Steiner 6). Also, in contrast with the production of coffee, cocaine uses fewer employees but earns

Violence seems to be a nationwide phenomenon. Almost all aspects of the Colombian population experience some degree of violence. Almost everybody is a potential victim; violence does not prefer a particular socioeconomic class, profession, race, or

mortars there in recent days.This combination of factors must have resulted in unacceptably high numbers of civilian casualties. Mr. Kälin also expressed his concern over the dire living conditions in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) who escaped the conflict, with the influx of an additional 110,000 people during the last 10 days of April posing further challenges for the Government and its humanitarian partners (UN expert).

Venezuela had always been a wealthy country in which people had a great life and everything they could ask for. They had a dictatorship hidden behind a democratic institution in control of the ex-president Hugo Chaves, which people thought was a good government because they had it all. But all these changed when Chaves passed away and, actual president, Nicolas Maduro came to power. He established a socialist dictatorship which has been prejudicial to the country’s economy and people. Since his rise to power, many multinational franchises have been leaving the country because of its no-profit structure. Markets don’t get enough goods, which made people upset and even angry. Prices raised in such a way that people couldn’t buy food for their families with the money they made. So, the people

In recent years though, killing has escalated [25,000 killed in 1995, with an average of 3,500 (mostly civilians) dying on average], though it appears the leaders of the Columbian government are making an effort to finally end this war. In 1998 President Pastrana tried to make peace with FARC by demilitarizing a safe zone for them (though it is believed that many of the hostages taken by the group are kept in this area). The current President is Alvaro Uribe, whose platform for election was to end the hostilities that have been tearing the nation apart for nearly 40 years (with currently involved members). Recently FARC has killed or taken hostage over 30 mayoral candidates, and have called the electoral system a farce. Peace talks have resumed, with up to 4000 guerilla and paramilitary fighters have turned their weapons into the government since Uribe took power, and AUC announced it would demobilize its troops by 2005. This is a big step, especially with FARC presently being