North America. Despite having the 3rd largest economy in Latin America‚ Colombia has high levels of rural poverty and drug production‚ causing violence. In this paper‚ I will discuss the violence enacted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) when they took over the drug trade and the steps that have been taken to help stem the illegal drug trade such as Plan Colombia. I will also explore the steps we can take to further assist in the fight against the drug trade in Colombia. The conclusion
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Nowadays‚ the Colombian government is closing the agreements with Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia‚ FARC. These agreements will take Colombia to a different environment where the security institutions will have to focus on problems that have a diverse nature. These challenges are going to be drug trafficking‚ corruption‚ illegal economies‚ criminal gangs‚ and Venezuelan instability‚ among others. The mission command philosophy‚ applied in all levels of planning‚ may have a valuable and
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and their goals. If leaders of the world unite to better understand what these organizations desire‚ the struggle for power would come to an end. Leaders must put their selfish desires aside and come together for the good of all. Al Qa’ida‚ HAMAs and FARC claim the titles of the three largest and most powerful terrorist organizations in the world. All three of these organizations have different reasons for their behavior‚ different intentions with their attacks
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Class Difference is the main cause. The elite class has started to gain control of the lower class and have developed their own organizations. 3 Main Guerilla Groups: FARC‚ the ELN and the M19. Purpose of Guerilla Groups: These are the rebels in the country who consider themselves as the elite class of the society. 1. Farc FARC takes in between $500 million and $600 million annually from the illegal drug trade Profits from Unofficial taxes and kidnappings Have 110 operational units out of which
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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 have since significantly increased their role in production by forcing farmers to grow cocaine. Economics and geopolitics are the clear reasons why the U.S. government implemented such a flawed drug policy which targets the FARC while turning a blind eye to the attacks committed by right-wing paramilitary groups
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There are many facets of Colombian crime that have shaped this South American nation. The first three things that come to mind when thinking about Colombian crime are relatively obvious: drug cartels‚ terrorism and corrupt politics. As a non-Colombian looking at these three major areas of crime one could receive a poor view of the nation of Colombia due to some of their flaws. The first thing to consider is the most obvious‚ the Colombian drug cartels. Colombia‚ like most of South America‚
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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 FARC became increasingly involved
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20 February‚ 2013 Tajuddin Ahmed‚ Faculty‚ School Of Business North South University Bashundhara R/A‚ Dhaka‚ Subject: Submission of Case analysis on “American Minor Company” Dear Sir‚ It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that I‚ the members of Group “E”‚ have successfully completed case analysis. It has been a great learning experience for us. As a group‚ we faced some problems to complete the whole case. We had tried our level best to propose an effective completion of the
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inconveniences and prompting progressive guerrillas and the FARC. This prompted lack of respect for the law. Around 1999‚ the administration was giving game plans to Pablo Escobar‚ a terrorist and medication lord. In 2011‚ the FARC declared closure the act of abducting regular people to support unlawful exercises. It discharged 10 policemen/fighters it had been holding prisoner for no less than 14 years. The January 2013 peace talks between the FARC and government were risked because of the seizing of
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fall on the earth‚ or water on the water" Pablo Neruda The FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is the most powerful terrorist group in Colombia. It was formed in 1964 by the two communist leaders Manuel Marulanda (known as Tirofijo)‚ and Jacobo Arenas. The mission of this group was to fight against social and economical inequalities. They have used sabotage and terrorism to generate fear in the citizens of this country. The FARC has also been involved with the drug cartel‚ issue that has
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