The Ongoing Colombian Conflict

The Guerilla Armies of F.A.R.C and E.L.N are detriments to this country. Involved in violence and alarming amounts of kidnappings and attacks, these groups are incredibly dangerous, any more growth or spread of their influence is threatening. The challenges with these organizations this including major drug cartels like Pablo Escobar’s Medellin is that abundant military enforcement is not likely to succeed. These organizations large profit margin and overall wealth. New groups can form and cause problems, not to mention these groups far more integrated into Colombian

The nation of Colombia is just beginning to wrap up a civil war between the

e peace process in Colombia is a topic that has been very polemic in our country and in the whole world. It is basically because of the ideology war between the people who defend justice and the people who want peace in Colombia without caring about the price. FARC is a group that has disturbed the tranquility in our country for decades, and it’s now that a president wants to do something to get our piece back by talks in La Habana and Oslo. In the past years, the government of Álvaro Uribe made them to calm a little bit with attacks to the civilians, because Uribe refused to let them do whatever they wanted and fought them with fire, giving them a taste of their own medicine. When Uribe’s period ended, he helped with the campaign of his friend

The root cause of these causalities and the continuous war is political conflict, the different points of view and opposing political spectrums is what continues to maintain the conflict of Colombia. Now the FARC is one of the richest and most powerful entities due to drug trafficking its quite difficult to find a common ground with them and the Colombian government. Many peace agreements have been drafted but had yet to be sustainable. There’s a large gap that needs to be filled in response to fining an individual who is responsible and will pay the consequences of the damages (Richani, 2013). The problem doesn’t only lie amongst the armed forces, it also lies in the government’s inability to provide what the people need. Both political stands and talks of peace are hard to unite as they tend to leave discontent in one political party or the

Colombia has struggled for six decades with drug dealers, guerrillas and paramilitary groups, it has been a long fight since 1945, when the first guerrilla groups appeared, then with the beginning of drug trafficking by Pablo Escobar, Medellin and Cali cartels, the Army has fought them, later in 1996 when the paramilitaries showed, the situation became even worse. It was a huge dispute among the drug dealers, guerrillas (Fuerzas Armada Revolucionarias de Colombia FARC, or Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional ELN) and paramilitary groups to control the drug trafficking business, and of course, the Army fights each one individually. Then the conflict changed from guerilla fight to terrorist fight, these illegal gangs began to use landmines to protect

The last armed conflict in the western hemisphere is coming to an end bringing hope of a peaceful and better world to all of us. This was the message President Santos of Colombia delivered to the general assembly of the United Nations in 2014. The ongoing peace process sits down the government and the FARC with the objective of ending hostilities and negotiating a social reform. The FARC guerrilla was founded almost 50 years ago in a small town south of Colombia where the villagers were tired of the government’s inequality and bad treatments. After 50 years of conflict, the social purpose of the armed group has disappeared and now they are terrorists and drug traffickers. After 2 years of ongoing negotiations, 3 out of 5 agenda points have been agreed upon. In his speech for the international community President Santos effectively gets their support for the process using an authoritarian tone, a positive diction, and an appeal to sympathy from them showing the horrors of war and the benefits of peace. He also understands the end of this conflict not only benefits Colombia but sets a precedent for the rest of the world and convinces the other leaders of this. Nonetheless, he falls in some logical fallacies like hasty generalizations and broad assumptions that would make his argument fall apart with another audience in another context.

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

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army mostly know as the FARC is a guerrilla that affected Colombia since 1964. It has been blamed for military tactics in addition with more unconventional methods, including terrorism. It manages an anti-imperialism political platform. Their operations are financed by kidnapping and its respective rescue money. They sustain themselves from illegal mining extortion in various forms of economic movement and distribution of illegal substances, affecting citizens to obtain political participation or charges.

One of the most important causes of armed conflict in Colombia is based on the political structure of this country, which is the political exclusion. To understand why, we must take into account the history of the two political parties in Colombia that are Liberals and Conservatives, which were develop and take shape in the middle of the XIX century formed by landowners, merchants, and warlords. Since the beginning, the Liberal and Conservative parties counted with their own political programs. Moreover, each one had their own vision of how the state and society have to be role, as well as various answers to the hardships faced by the country at that time which make violent fights with each other in the way each one wants to have

September 4, 2012, a day that changed Colombians life. Once again Colombia faces a peace negotiation with the FARC, but this time everything is different from the past failed negotiations. First, these negotiations have an agenda and are being held in front of the whole world, giving reports constantly to the Colombians. Second, it is the first time in which both parts have a true will for peace and reconciliation; this can be seen in the fact that the FARC have accept they are offenders and not victims for the very first time. Third, the victims of the conflict are playing an important role in the negotiations and are being considered as an essential part of the process. Finally Colombia is witnessing true peace negotiations, but not

On the other hand, it is important to analyze the kind of negotiation going on in Colombia. President Santos is now conducting some peace negotiations with the FARC at Cuba. However with regard to the other groups; the ELN- even if they have tried to initiate some negotiations they have not reach any end-, the paramilitary structure, nowadays known as Bacrim is still active. With this perspective, they will reach a fractured, a parcial peace at best.

10). The positive economic projections of the end of the armed conflict has been touted as being significant in terms of enhanced human, physical and social capital. For example, the end of the conflict could potentially increase human capital by reducing poverty and inequality and by effect increase the Colombian labor force size. “Enhanced rural development and the rule of law in rural areas would boost agricultural production. Furthermore, the reduction in terrorist acts against physical infrastructure would shrink physical capital destruction and this safer climate would attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourism. In addition, the end of the conflict would improve social cohesion while reducing corruption and court congestion” (OECD, 2013, p. 10). A recent government study estimated that the end of the conflict would boost by 0.9%.

Propelled by four decades of a complex multi-party conflict between the armed forces, illegal armed groups -- most notably the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and drug cartels -- the

Columbia, a country of unrest, inequality, fear, war, drugs, and bloodshed, being torn minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day from their own, the left-wing Guerrilla Army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (F.A.R.C.) for over fifty years. Reasons for continuing the civil war in Columbia between all of the different braches of the Columbian army very from group to group, all of which have valid reasoning; however, the Columbian government was desperate to bring peace back to their country and reduce the deaths and displacement of Columbian citizens. With all traditional means proving to be ineffective, the Columbian government introduced advertising and marketing into their peace propositions.

Lamentablemente a pesar de los esfuerzos del Estado y la comunidad para gerenciar de manera próspera el departamento, la problemática social, económica, política y de inseguridad siguen siendo un gran obstáculo para el desarrollo de este departamento. La situación del departamento del Chocó aún resulta alármate debido a los cultivos ilícitos, la usurpación de tierras, los actores armados al margen de la ley y la problemática social y económica en general. Aunque es claro que todos estos factores son dependientes el uno del otro, cada problemática juega un papel importante en el estancamiento de este departamento.