The History Of Colombia

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Did you know that colombia has a GOLD MUSEUM?! Colombia is a country in South America that lies near the equator. Three things that make Colombia a great place are its, sports, music and attractions.
Colombia has some of the most interesting sports.
One of Colombia’s most popular sports is Football. Almost 300,000 people play football AND the Colombian national league got ranked 9th for The Strongest National League in the World in 2014. Another popular sport in Colombia is cycling. About 8 million people in the cities of Colombia do cycling from 7am to 2pm. The last sport is roller skating, it was very popular in some counties. Colombia has some of the best music! Colombia has thousands of rhythms! That’s why it’s called “The Land of a thousand

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Essay on Colombia: International Trade and Colombia

Rojas Presented to: Gloria Walker 12/10/2014 Colombia: Opening to the World Colombia had one of the cruelest histories in the last part of the 20th century. The country was home of one of the biggest drug lords that history has ever seen (Pablo Escobar) and the corruption was one of the highest in the continent and in the world. These problems created a difficult atmosphere to engage…

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Essay on Cocaine: Illegal Drug Trade and Cocaine Production Colombia

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Policy Brief Essay

Political violence had been a very significant part of Colombian history since the 1940’s. This violence escaladed in the 1960’s due to the creation of many armed revolutionary groups called guerrillas. Over the years, this conflict has violated many human rights laws and has been the cause of a long lasting civil war between the Colombian government and the Guerrilla groups including mainly the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the ELN (National Liberation Army). Although Canada is not…

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Colombia Drug Trafficking

cocaine (the drug of choice at the time) was Colombia. One reason for Colombia’s success in drug trafficking was its location. Being located directly between two of the countries that grew the most cocaine, Peru and Bolivia, was a great asset. Along with the prime location, Colombia had Pablo Escobar, a leader of the Medellín cartel, the largest cartel at the time. In his prime Escobar controlled eighty percent of the cocaine that was exported from Colombia. From the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s…

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National Identity Essay

My national identity I am from Colombia a country located in the north of South America Colombia is a rich country from Spanish and indigenous background. Colombia’s history starts 20.000 years ago when the indigenous groups lived all along the country some more known than others, there were thousands of communities most of them with a different language. All these communities worked as other societies, a big leader who was known as the person who could talk to the gods. Indigenous followed rituals…

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Essay on Unemployment Rate Percent

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Colombia Research Paper

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Narcos Essay

dramatized history of series as a spoiler of the Escobar story. Narcos, it is an American series which is one of my favorite series. Narcos show amazing drama of two seasons that increase and decrease of Colombian drug and the drama was awesomely played lead character as Lord Pablo Escobar (main character), which is narrated by Steven murphy (agent). As in real life DEA agent, and play the twist to track the Escobar throughout the season. The first season flash out the 17 years history of Colombian…

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Essay on Micro Trade

to attain economic growth. Also, trade agreements are signed due to the scarcity of resources, leading them to search of better opportunity cost with other nations to replenish what each other lack in resources. For this reason, the agreement of Colombia (TPA), Mercosur (Common Market of the South), SACU FTA (Southern African Customs Union Free Trade), COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) and EFTA( European Free trade agreement) were signed with the purpose to create a plethora…

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