Name of country in English: Colombia Name of country in Spanish: Colombia Map of country and capital w/ surrounding countries: [pic] Info about when country was founded and how it happened: Columbia was first discovered by Spanish explorers. It became a Spanish colony after its discovery in the early 16th century. It remained a Colony of Spain until the 1800’s. However‚ there were several rebel movements during this time against the colonization of the Spanish rule‚ however‚ these movements
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Johnny Mrlik Final Draft Pearlman Due: December 14th‚ 2015 Violence and US Intervention in the Drug Trade in Colombia Colombia is the tenth most unequal country in the world and the largest supplier of cocaine to 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
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Chapter 1: Diversity Amid Globalization Globalization-The growing interconnectedness of people through converging processes of economic‚ political‚ and cultural change Hybridization-The blending of popular culture with local cultural traditions Pro-globalization- Anti-globalization- Cultural Geography- study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and places. It focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language‚ religion‚ economy‚ government and
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One main factor that can be traced through many militarization cases is the complex relationship between the police and the military (Chabat‚ Jorge‚ "Mexico’s War" 135). To begin with‚ the roles and objectives of the military and the police are very different‚ that when combined‚ counteract each other (Bailey‚ John and Dammert‚ Lucia 15). The duty of the police is to protect civil society‚ while also being accountable to them‚ indicating that the use of force is only meant to be used as a last resort
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Three Issues Confronting the Intelligence Community In the past decade‚ the United States has witnessed a shift in the nature of the threat from “known” enemies of the past such as the Soviet Union to an “unknown” adversary employing an asymmetric strategy as they wage fourth generation warfare against any nation who opposes their will. This new threat paradigm presents a complex environment with emerging threats that are difficult to predict. In order to identify the threat‚ the intelligence
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December 9‚ 2013 Drug Trafficking: The War on Drugs There is a global-wide market that connects every continent. Drug smuggling has been a problem plaguing the world since the dawn of the age of imperialism. Smuggling is the direct result that comes from drug prohibition and the main reason for smuggling is the direct cash profit resulting from the transaction. Illegal drug smuggling can be seen as early in the 1800 ’s‚ a clear example would be the Opium War in China. The Chinese had become
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main goal is not merely to join a specific group. They seek to distinguish and separate themselves from the people who used to be their peers‚ the people who are now seen as beneath them. Poets‚ as a group‚ are not exempt from the societal trend. Pablo Neruda explores the selfish tendency of poets in “Sweetness‚ always” while also offering a solution to the issue and calling those selfsame poets to action. Through the use of clashing imagery representing the problem and solution in poetry‚ the speaker
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It accurately represented the majority of what went on in Columbia during that time and I think that the show does the time period justice and before this show I knew very little about Columbia and Pablo Escobar but now that I’ve seen it‚ I have a better understanding of what went on during that period. I think it was a good representation of the early stages of a Democracy and showed the core values of what most people look for in their life. Although
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directly for El Padrino himself. Although early on Guzmán lived in Guadalajara‚ as did Gallardo‚ his command and control center was actually located in Agua Prieta‚ Sonora. After Félix Gallardo’s capture‚ Guzmán took control of the entire Sinaloa Cartel.[2][8] Guzmán is wanted by the governments of Mexico and the United States and by INTERPOL;[9] so far he has
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• Luis Van Isschot explores human rights activism in Colombia’s oil capital‚ Barrancabermeja • Explores several aspects o Development of Barrancabermeja as a city o Nationalization of the oil industry in Colombia o Emergence of social movements in response to several conflicts The shifts of these movements • Meeting the demands of the public o Human rights activism in response to violence Thesis - Luis Van Isschot approaches the topic of human rights activism in Colombia‚ by exploring the origins
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