Bogota Bogota is a vibrant city that is situated below the cold Andean Mountains and offers a mixture of modern shopping malls and historic colonial buildings. The City’s main centre is the La Candelaria where there are restaurants‚ bars and hotels in amongst the ancient homes‚ churches and convents. The South of the City is where the working class stay and is still well known for the drug industry but North of the city is filled with hotels and entertainment in the districts of Zona Rosa and Zona
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famous king pin that thought of himself as invincible after being shot multiple times by the police. The painting was made in 1999 by the Colombian painter Fernando Botero. The Death of Pablo Escobar resides in the Museum of Antioquia - Medellin (Colombia - Medellin) and is considered a patrimony of Colombian culture. Its dimensions are of: Height: 45.7 cm and‚ Width: 34.3 cm. Botero’s work is a dark and gloomy representation of the iconic fall of the world’s most famous drug lord at the
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The Indigenous Tribes of the Rainforest – The Nukak Tribe The Nukak Tribe is found in between the Guaviare and Inirida River in the Amazon basin. It is part of the Guaviare department‚ in the Republic of Colombia. Unlike any other tribe‚ the Nukak population is facing a severe threat to extinction. Their current numbers only lies around 400. Over half of their population were found dead or killed since they met in the Columbian civil war between the Columbian soldiers and gorillas. The out-side
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The Federal Government’s Impact on the Crack Epidemic in the District of Colombia Cutler Fisher AMST 3950W April 15‚ 2012 The term epidemic is typically used in relation to the spread of a disease however; in the mid 1980’s this term was attached to crack cocaine. The crack cocaine epidemic described the impact of a newly created drug on most U.S. cities in the northeast and Mid Atlantic. Washington‚ D.C. provided the perfect setting for crack cocaine to flourish. Plenty of low-income inner
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selling cannabis‚ stealing cars as a hobby and awakening a new reputation for himself in the criminal underworld. In an interview with Pablo’s cousin‚ Jaime Gaviria‚ it was revealed that Escobar once said in a revengeful tone‚ “No rich person in Colombia does anything for the poor. How can we fix inequality in our country? Steal from the rich‚ cousin”. It seems that he would be tempted put those words to action‚ suggested by his aggressive
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Pablo Escobar – A Criminal with a Conscience Profiles in Crime “Pablo was mourned by thousands. Crowds rioted as his casket was carried into the streets of his home city of Medellin” (Bowden‚ p15). This funeral does not sound as that of a notorious thug‚ but that of a vigilantly. Pablo Escobar committed many crimes ranging from petty theft‚ to terrorism‚ but mainly he was a drug king pin responsible for flooding North America with cocaine in the 1980’s. So the question is why
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Sanchez. His love for Laura Farina becomes a means for him to sublimate his fear of death into sensual passion. However‚ his demise is inevitable‚ and he is left lonely and defeated‚ as death is one of the only constants in life. Marquez was born in Colombia in 1928‚ and raised by his maternal grandparents. He attributes his unique writing style to his childhood experiences‚ and various stories his grandparents would tell him. His grandmother often told him fantastic stories‚ and usually didn’t pay
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population uses cell phone network. Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America‚ almost twice the size of Texas. The official language is
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Columbia is a very very beautiful country. It has lots of cities and has very beautiful landscapes. Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Three mighty north-south Andean cordilleras separate the western coastal lowlands from the almost empty eastern jungles‚ with 54 percent of Colombia’s land but only 3 percent of the people. Most Colombians are of mixed ethnicity about 20 percent European. Native Indians‚ one percent of the population
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Indigenous People in Colombia Do you ever wonder where we come from‚ and how were those cultures? Well in this paper we will explain the main ethnic groups and which were the most advanced. Also we are going to explain how the suffered a lot of aggression and were forced to abandon their lands. The three main ethnic groups were the Quimbayas‚ the Chibchas and the Caribis. The most advances cultures were the Muiscas and the Taironas that belonged to the Chibchas group. The Quimbayas ancient
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