Once there was a father named Columbia. Columbia had 5 children whom he loved very much, except for two, Guerilla and Campesino. Columbia loved his other kids very much that he gave them everything they needed from clothing to money. He even bragged about them in front of other people and called them “my children”. However, he didn’t felt the same compassion for his last two sons. Whenever they needed something, important or not important, he either say no, or nothing at all as if they don’t exist. He even denied them in front of other people saying “I don’t know them”. Guerilla and Campesino did everything they can for their father to notice them, but to no avail. They were poor, hungry, and uneducated, compared to their other siblings.
At last they met a friend named Coca, who helped them better their lives. The only problem was, Coca will only help them if they do something for him, and in this case, illegal. Guerilla and Campesino both knew that if they agreed to help Coca, their father Colombia and their uncle America will be very mad at them. But because they were very hungry, and their father still did not listen to them, they finally agreed. Alas, the mighty war began between Columbia and his two sons.
The book “Between the Guerillas and the State” explores the history and reasons behind the uprising of the Cocaleros in 1996 in the eyes of a campesino. Ramirez analyzes the events that brought Columbia to the top of the chart in coca production, contributing mainly to the production of the prohibited drug cocaine. She discusses the abandonment of the state to its people, their violent measure in controlling them, as well as their negative definition of the “cocaleros” in public as the main factors why campesinos are margin...
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...ating them like a regular citizen, they see the cocaleros as mere “puppets” of the guerillas and drug traffickers and that they only live to serve them. Unless the central government starts to listen to the cocaleros’ and treat them with respect, the issue between these two agencies will never be solved.
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The article begins with Kaplan’s trek northward from Mexico City and describes many of the sights he sees along the way. He describes dirt roads lined with trash, and cinder-block houses with corrugated roofs. Then he goes into great detail about the economic divisions between social classes and the booming America-bound drug industry that causes the division.
...ation in a 10-vehicle convoy in July, sprayed it with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and then lobbed grenades at it. Rosas Perez survived.” This quote shows just how reckless and violent the cartel is. It also shows how they can have an affect on politics.
Youngers, Coletta. 2001. “Collateral Damage: U.S. Drug Control Efforts in the Andes.” Paper presented for the meeting of “The Latin American Studies Association,” The Washington Office on Latin America, Washington D.C., September 6-8.
The Andes had a legacy of resistance that was unseen in other Spanish occupied place during the colonial period. There were rebellions of various kinds as a continued resistance to conquest. In the “Letters of Insurrection”, an anthology of letters written amongst the indigenous Andean people, between January and March 1781 in what is now known as Bolivia, a statement is made about the power of community-based rebellion. The Letters of Insurrection displays effects of colonization and how the “lesser-known” revolutionaries that lived in reducción towns played a role in weakening colonial powers and creating a place of identification for indigenous people.
Vilas, Carlos M. The Sandinista Revolution: National Liberation and Social Transformation in Central America. Editorial Legasa S.R.L., 1986. Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mexico.
It is my intention to investigate the relationship with Pablo Escobar and the development of Colombia as this is a very controversial and wide topic that covers many aspects regarding the economic growth of Columbia. The topic "changing communities" can be interpreted many ways for this topic, changing communities shall be measured in economic development, change in culture and geographic development. In this research paper I am going to discover Pablo Escobar's relationship with the development of Colombia as in the early stages of Escobar's reign over Columbia and the drug world he was coined the nickname "the robin hood of Colombia" for his millions of US dollars
Ross, John. ?The Zapatistas at Ten.? NACLA, Vol. xxxvii, No. 3, November/December, 2003: pp. 11-16.
The power that the drug cartels have over the Mexican government and civilians has risen, terrorizing the country as a whole. With the fear the cartels have drilled in the civilians in Mexico, the United States has taken action to aid its neighboring country. In many cases Mexican civilians have had to move for their safety; “people move after their source of income has declined or become less sustainable as a result…of violence [from the cartels] and insecurity” (Albuja 29.) The Mexican military and the United States marines have come together to create safety to the civilians in Mexico. Both the Marines and the military govern over the streets of specific parts of the th...
Gootenberg, Paul. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
...they continue to send troops to regain control of towns and prevent violence and crime in an attempt to make drugs a less prominent factor in their society. All that we as individuals can do to somewhat change the course of the future of the cartels is to educate ourselves on drug abstinence and help stop the spread of the use of drugs.
Colombian citizens experience and live through the good and bad things Pablo does, when Americans only hear about the negative actions Escobar commits. Hearing versus seeing plays a vital role in the difference of perspectives between the Colombians and Americans. In the United States, only hearing about Pablo Escobar leads to confusion among different people as “For what, exactly, isn’t easy to understand without knowing Colombia and his life and times” (15). American civilians not knowing personally know why they hate Escobar reflects poorly on the United States. The media does not inform the general public about all the great and generous things Escobar accomplishes for Colombia, and only publishes the stories of his cartel killing innocent people. From the perspective of Colombians, they only know Escobar as a hero of Colombia as “At his death, Pablo was mourned by thousands. Crowds rioted when his casket was carried into the streets of his home city of Medellin” (15). Colombians create a national mourning day for Escobar after his death, when the Americans celebrate their success in killing him. This represents the difference in opinion of Escobar between the two countries. Pablo made promises and he conqueres them; he said he would end poverty as he provided education and housing to the poorest people inside of Colombia. On the other hand,
The film opens with a news program reporting Chávez’s consumption of coca and linking it to the alleged poor governance of Venezuela. He was called a dictator, together with Morales, who was not directly mentioned in the segment but was simply referred to as “the dictator from Bolivia” who supplied him with ...
In 1995, the US began to fund aerial eradication campaigns in Colombia. Military planes dumped pesticides over thousands of acres of coca fields. These campaigns turned out to be counterproductive, leading to an actual increase in the amount of coca acreage. The spraying of coca only led Colombian growers to diversify their techniques, growing coca amongst other crops or in locations that were hard to identify by radar techniques. In 2002, the CI...
The paper traces Escobar's life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine drug dealer and kingpin. The paper discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made as well as the way he invested in legitimate projects using the funds he gained illegally. The paper explores the influence Escobar had and the way he worked, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a no-extradition clause into the Colombian constitution.
El contexto histórico de la obra se puede ubicar en Colombia, a finales del siglo XIX y mediados del siglo XX. Tal y como se manifiesta en la novela, existían, dentro de la historia de Colombia, los partidos liberal y conservador, notablemente reconocidos por las múltiples guerras civiles que los enfrentaron. Es claro que Gabriel García Márquez refleja a dos personajes históricos de Colombia: Rafael Uribe Uribe, líder del partido liberal y Rafael Núñez, presidente colombiano líder del partido conservador. Muchas de las batallas descritas en la obra hacen referencia a batallas sangrientas de la guerra civil colombiana, como por ejemplo, la Guerra de los Mil Días. En la obra se describe, de igual manera, cómo se llevaría un sinnúmero de conflictos liderados principalmente por un personaje homólogo a Rafael Uribe Uribe: el coronel Aureliano Buendía.