Álvaro Uribe

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

Research Question: How has the internationalization of the drug trade lessened the FARC’s actions towards helping poor Colombian peasants - part of their original mission statements? Primary Sources: Velez , Alvaro Uribe. “Statement by H.E. Mr. Alvaro Uribe Velez President of the Republic of Colombia at the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly .” Colombian Mission to the United Nations . 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly , 27 Sept. 2007, New York, United Nations

Paola Velez Upegui English 112-54 Summers/ DRP November 25, 2016 Colombia Proposing Peace The beauty of Colombia is no match for the darkness that hides inside. Unable to flourish into a country of prosperity that can showcase what nature has given them but a place tied to the past with violence. Soon The FARC stepped up to shake not only terror into the government but also the people of Colombia. They have killed and kidnapped locals, tourists and government officials for decades now they have

Conflict in Colombia 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

explicit original intentions were to help rural Colombian peasants, but their actions stray from this path in the future. Topic Sentence: The introduction of the drug trade significantly altered the composition and actions of the FARC. President Alvaro Uribe himself talks to the international community about the FARC’s facilitation of the drug trade (Velez). The FARC’s involvement in the drug trade caused it to become a primary target of the “War on Drugs” (Leech). The FARC is seen as being converted

Juan Manuel Santos Calderon is the president; he is currently serving his last term in office Colombia is dominated by two political parties, Social National Unity Party and the opposition, Democratic Center Party led by former president, Alvaro Uribe. In recent times the political landscape of Colombia has changed, political stability is now the order of the day. The freedom of expression is evident in policy debates where the opposition has been very critical of the policy of the current administration

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

In 1970’s, the Colombian poor farmers began planting Marijuana in purpose of an alternative to legal crops to survive producing. In the 1970’s the Colombian organized crime had been accelerated when criminal groups tried to cash in on the obsession for cocaine in the United States by importing coca leaf from Bolivia and Peru into cocaine hydrochloride (HCL) then trafficking it to the United States. (InSight Crime, n.d.). During the time of Pablo Escobar in 1980’s the first major cocaine cartels emerged

The concept of patrimonialism in Latin American countries is a subject that has been studied and researched by some of the world’s most renowned sociologists and political scientists. In this literature review I will use the information gathered from several of these researchers and combine their theories and ideologies in an attempt to understand why many Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia have continued to remain oppressed throughout history and stand on

Colombian Democracy There is a practical problem to capturing a cogent understanding of Colombia in a single snapshot. There are two realities of Colombia scholars use to frame analysis of the birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical realism: “armed conflict” and “political democracy.” These phenomena are a defining feature of modern Colombia. They have coexisted since 1958 when the National Front political pact ended intra-elite conflict in La Violencia but failed to guarantee a stable