is much like the adults they fight with. In training‚ they witness prisoners being tortured and mutilated. “An estimated eighty percent of the children under arms belong to one of the two guerrilla groups‚ the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) or the National Liberation Army (ELN)”(Bradbury). At least one of every four irregular combatants in Colombia is under eighteen years of age (Snyder). Also the guns they use are lightweight‚ so they are easily armed. The issue of child combatants
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Ingrid Betancourt was a Columbian politician and presidential candidate until she was kidnapped and held hostage by FARC guerrillas for six years before getting rescue by the Columbian military. Her story is full of horror and bravery as she held out against her abductors for years and never gave up the hope that she will be rescued one day. If Mrs. Betancourt were a soldier in the United States Army‚ the articles of the Code of Conduct that she kept faith with would be Articles II‚ III‚ and IV
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possess a structure of intelligence that resists the action of forces like: Networks of common crime‚ conspiracies of international terrorist groups and Terrorist actions of rebellious groups in the interior of the country ( As ETA in the case of Spain‚ FARC in Latin America and extremist religious groups in middle est. ). The state have‚ then‚ safety organisms‚ which need between other elements of: Budget‚ Top technology‚ suitable professional training‚ logistic and communications to keep society safe
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Nicole Ransom INTS 101 Khalil Marrar 11/8/2012 How does the Cocaine drug trade affect its producing countries‚ what problems are seen‚ and what are possible solutions to these problems both locally and internationally? The drug trafficking problem focused on Cocaine is mainly limited to three countries‚ Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia. These three countries are the main producers and traders when it comes to the Coca leaf and Cocaine. They all face problems created by the war on drugs centered
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[pic] Among the countless repercussions from September 11 is a new rationale for doling out security assistance: the war on terrorism. Not since anticommunism was used to excuse the arming and training of repressive governments during the cold war has there been such a broad‚ fail-safe rationale to provide military aid and arms to disreputable foreign militaries. Already the largest weapons supplier in the world‚ the U.S. government is now providing arms and military training to an even
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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 were made mainly of
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State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations have ties to the illegal drug trade. For example‚ the Taliban and Afghan warlords collect nearly half a billion dollars a year from illicit drug farming‚ production and trafficking‚ while the FARC in Colombia finances its activities with $300 million a year in illegal drug sales. According to the federal government‚ 23.5 million Americans are in need of substance abuse treatment‚ but only one in 10 receive it. 48 percent of U.S. high school
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The Rights of a Human Being: Photo Essay Vishesh Thanki Ms. Ritichie CGW 4UO-A November 23‚ 2010 http://forchicanachicanostudies.wikispaces.com/file/view/unity-is-strength.gif/62142304/unity-is-strength.gif The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states clearly that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights). However this is not always regulated around the world. There is a small disparity in terms of people
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terrorists. The time in which the business of bananas was booming had a very important role to play with Chiquita’s conviction. At that time‚ Columbia was in a very unstable political environment. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) and alter the National Liberation Army (ELN) were constantly fighting. The cultural presumption of “no law” made it less challenging or morally okay for Chiquita to get caught up in the no law land and make unethical decisions. The bananas industry
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