El Conflicto Armado en El Choco, Colombia

Colombia was one of the three original countries along with Ecuador and Venezuela that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830. Over the last 40 years, there has been a campaign to overthrow the government partially because of the drug trades throughout Colombia. The movement does however lack support from military and support from the necessary influences. In recent years, there have been challenges for control of the territories throughout Colombia and also for the drug trade.

Most of us are familiar with these global terms “American dream” and “drugs cartels”. These thoughts exemplify one the differences between United States of America and Colombia. Despite United States of America and Colombia are located in the same hemisphere significant differences in food, natural resources and tourist attractions make each country quite distinct from the other.

It has many outdoor activities to offer such as ‘Mountain Biking’ , ‘Kayaking’ and ‘Rafting’. It is located 300km from the Capital Bogotá and it has a population of around 43,000 inhabitants

Historically, war has been used to achieve power around the world. The necessity of one party to demonstrate that it has more physical and political power than the other has been necessary to consolidate status quo. If we talk about war as a pathway to achieve state formation and later consolidation of a system of states in Latin America, it is necessary to to back in history and analyze the distribution of power within the period even before the colonization.

Alexander Avina’s book, Specters of the Revolution: Peasant Guerillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, provides insight into the contextual relationship of Mexico’s habitual revolutions with in their turbulent history, and the failure of leadership from Lucio Cabanas and Gerno Vezquez , as well as the overall divisive culture that plagues Mexican history. Though his arguments are often lengthy and complex, Avina’s work manages to chronologically document the extensive history of Mexico’s revolutionary upheaval. In addition, Avina addresses the flawed leadership of Lucio Cabanas and Gerno Vezquez as they scrupulously debated various ideologies in attempt to find the solution for the people. Meanwhile the Mexican people whom they were theorizing

También la lluvia is a tragic tale of the water wars in Cochbamba from the view point of a movie crew trying to make a movie about the Spanish conquistadors who came to conquer the native people. During the movie we are flashed between two points of view the conquistadors conquering and the water wars. During this reflection paper I hope to make a connection between these two points of views and show how they both related to each other. The conquistadors and the water company/government both do three things first they came for a resource, second they force the natives to follow their policies, and lastly if they don’t do as they are told they use violence to suppress them.

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

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.

Andrien’s book is a historical summary of the Andean region from native people to after the Spanish conquest. It addresses economy, culture, and the importance of religion, as well as power structures. There is an emphasis on the continued existence of indigenous culture despite Spanish involvement for hundreds of years.

Colombia’s FARC: A Portrait of Insurgent Intelligence by Gentry and Spencer looks in great detail of the insurgent group known as FARC . The article aims to view how groups FARC uses its intelligence services and groups like FARC. The article also goes into great detail on the history of FARC. The authors say that the groups military intelligence is fairly good but

Like the Lost City itself, the descendants of the Tairona are finding themselves increasingly caught up in the chaos of Colombia's war. La Guerrilla is recruiting from among the young, which they denied, and disaffected of the tribes while paramilitary groups punish them with extreme violence. Recent tales of retaliatory dismemberment and cannibalism in paramilitary-controlled areas has kept indigenous groups from entering the Lost City. Unfortunately, indigenous people are getting involve in violence without having nothing to do with it. It has to be hard live in a peaceful place and wake up a morning in war. In Colombia, they have the “Cauca region which is known for its tradition of indigenous organization and its resistance against the landlords and the state” (Rudqvist & Anrup, 2013). In that area indigenouscommunities have given different meanings to civil resistance that meet the needs of particular contexts and the different forms of violence that afflict them. During my investigation, I found that some indigenous people prefer to be part of La Guerrilla. There was a girl who was recruited when she was only 9 years old, she came back when she was 16 and during her interview, she said that “There are times when I

During the 1980s and 1990s as a result of fearing for their security throughout El Salvador’s civil war, Salvadorans began to immigrate to the United States to find safety away from their native country. Often times, it is in the aftermath of a civil war and not during the actual war itself, that civilians face new threats from delinquents, vigilantes or former combatants (Call and Stanley 2001). Furthermore, refuges did not immediate receive the support needed because the Salvadoran Civil War was backed up by the U.S. It was not until the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act was passed in 1997 that many Salvadorans were offered a legal path to residency, as long as they were registered asylum seekers. Ultimately, by 2008,

Colombia is a Latin American country located in South America that has been ravaged by violence, starvation, and large-scale inequality between higher and lower classes. The chaos in Colombia has been between rebel forces and the government and has lasted for over fifty years. These rebel forces have fought to achieve their Liberalist lead goals of overthrowing the current democratic government of Colombia and replacing it with a communist government. La Violencia was the main contributor to the conflict between the resistance fighters of Colombia and the Colombian government that has brought on violence and terror from the violent actions between the Liberal and Conservative parties in the 1950’s. , which has directly brought on the violence and terror from the guerrilla groups.

In Honor and Ethnicity, Alonso explicates how ethnicity plays differently on the Chihuahuan frontier. Not serving as the basis of labor division as in the Center, the logic of ethnicity on the Chihuahuan frontier is driven by contrasting two antagonistic forces, “civilization-barbarism and reason-animal instinct” highlighting gente de razón (civilized people possessing reason) versus indios bárbaros (barbaric Indian lacking in reason)” (64). She, further, argues that “the discourse of ethnicity was central to an ideology of frontier warfare that legitimated civilization’s use of force and delegitimated barbarism’s use of violence” (69). By juxtaposing the use of violence by the ‘civilized’ Chihuahuan frontier and the ‘barbarism’ Apache, Alonso

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.