Form of government and national politics • Colombia achieved independence from Spain in 1819. • The country is governed by a national constitution‚ amended on July 5‚ 1991. • Colombia has three branches of Public Power: The Executive‚ the Legislative and the Judiciary. • Colombia has a democratically-elected representative system with a strong executive branch. The President is elected to a non-renewable‚ four-year term. The President is both the chief of state and
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Political war The political origin of the armed conflict in Colombia has its origins from the time of indecency. Then with the birth of communist ideology guerrillas‚ drug trafficking as the main factor of founding‚ prolonging and worsening of the conflict. The war between cartels and forced displacement has hit the Colombian society. These factors have forced the Colombian Army to sustain a conflict that no army in the world has ever faced. These narco-insurgency groups base its actions on the
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The most prominent outlaw groups in Colombia are the FARC‚ Bacrim‚ and ELN who are distributed as shown in Figure 2. “The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the oldest and largest group among Colombia’s left-wing rebels and is one of the world’s richest guerrilla armies. The group was founded in 1964‚ when it declared its intention to overthrow the government and install a Marxist regime. But tactics changed in the 1990s‚ as right-wing paramilitary forces attacked the rebels‚ and the
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Colombia International Business Assessment Mandi Norton Athens State University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to focus on the analysis of the cultural factors of the economics of Colombia as it relates to doing business there‚ the business etiquette in Colombia; including their customs and manners‚ and the impact those factors have on the industry of Colombian rose exportation. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the analysis of the cultural factors of the economics of Colombia
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United States should end Plan Colombia.” Definitions “In order to clarify this round of debate‚ we would like to offer the following definition:” Plan Colombia: the US aid package given to Colombia to combat the drug war through military means that has been worth over 5 billion dollars since 2000. Now I will give a Resolutional Analysis: This resolution implies immediacy (therefore this argument is resolutional and fact based) so the pro must prove that Plan Colombia should be ended right now. Additionally
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Colombia [Name] [Course] [Affiliation] Introduction: Colombia is an independent country that is situated in the northern region of Southern America. It has a projected population of about 42 million that shares its border with‚ Brazil‚ Peru‚ Panama‚ Venezuela and Ecuador. Colombia is considered as a unique country having unique culture. The culture of Colombia is influenced by the blend of its residents that belong to Spanish‚ African and Indian origins. Colombia is having diversity in
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A large portion of FARC’s profits now come from drug trafficking; however‚ they weren’t major drug traffickers when Plan Colombia was first implemented. Peter Dale Scott‚ a professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley and author of several books on this topic‚ noted that the Colombian government estimated in 2001 that paramilitary groups controlled 40% of the cocaine exports; whereas the FARC controlled only 2.5%. The FARC had been more involved in the “taxing” of the drug trade‚ but they
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simplify Plan Colombia‚ the objective was to bring order to a disorderly country. Colombia’s national objective with Plan Colombia was to “ensure order‚ stability‚ and the rule of law; guarantee sovereignty over national territory; protect the State and the civilian population from the threats posed by illegal armed groups and criminal organizations; break links between the illegal armed groups and the criminal drug industry that supports them”. Through regaining control and order within Colombia‚ Plan
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Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the 1960s Marxist guerilla groups formed. The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They
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Armed Forces of Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party that was formed in 1964 after Castro’s Cuban revolution. FARC’s ideological goal is to overthrow the democratic government of Colombia and replace it with a Communist regime. The group supports Marxist-Leninist theory of redistribution of wealth by seizing it from the wealthy and giving it to the poor. Also‚ FARC opposes U.S. influence in Colombia‚ the privatization
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