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If you travel to Colombia for the first time, you're probably very concerned about the issue of violence. Most of the information you get about Colombia is related to acts of violence and Hollywood has done a good job in showing Colombia and Latin America as a field full of gunmen. When I was a college student in Medellin in the 90, one of my classmates got a job as a correspondent for a London news agency. The idealist in my companion began to send information about cultural activities with beautiful landscapes of the Colombian regions. After a time he was fired because what they were expecting was the reporting of acts of "violence" in Colombia. I also remember a Hollywood movie, the kind of detectives and thieves, in which the American hero investigating a drug cartel and traveled ElDorado the International AIRPORT. As soon as the plane landed, two battle tanks gathered on the plane. The character off the plane and is greeted by another on the same track from the airports who says "
fast, let's get out of here before we are riddled " and board a car which is also on the track from the airports. Show Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla and other cities in Colombia has also an "international etiquette" Wild Wild West towns with cows, chickens and bars everywhere. If a foreign journalist has to do a story for television from Jerusalem, is written to do so with the ancient walls of the city as a background, whether on a terrorist attack. Same for Paris with his tower or any American city with its skyscrapers. But if a television report made from Colombia, you should look more gray funds in a country famous for its beautiful natural and urban landscapes of colors and contrasts. Let's see: when violence is used and for what? When this is real and how?

By Al Rodas in London by pure evil bunny . Is Colombia a violent country? Absolutely. The statistics say so. The reality proves it. Violence in Colombia is a fact. Has been present in the country ever since. For certain periods of the Republican era has reached high proportions. Another thing you need to know is that violence in Colombia has a complicated web of actors, factors and events and is connected with violence in Latin America and the intervention of foreign elements.
Those who want to understand the violence in Colombia should study carefully the history of the formation of the Republic since the conquests English territory and Latin American history. Statistics show numbers, history helps understanding and truth work for better prospects for change that.

Colombians Are people violent? The answer to this question is no. This suggestion has been presented throughout history by foreign scholars. The same has happened in other regional conflicts in the world long. Some students with certain interests have Sigerico the Palestinians, Cambodians, Slovenes and many others with violent by nature. It is the simplest way to explain the facts of regions that we know well and Peres is the intellectual acts. Moreover, this suggestion is always on the side of those who have certain interests against the people they labeled as "violent." If it can be proven that the Colombians are violent, discrimination might be a good solution for them and their tragedies could cause indifference as in the case of Colombia many times. If you want to know about the meaning of peace, justice and development, it should not ask the intellectuals of Iceland, Switzerland or New Zealand, but the Colombians. Only those who have suffered from the absence of peace, justice and fragility of the consequences of poverty, know the value thereof. In this way, sometimes the Colombians are right when they say that the solutions it must come from Colombia and the international community's role should be to support and help.




The world's most violent country

• "Cyclist Killer!" London by Danny McL .
• is well known that Colombia is among the most violent countries in the world by Iraq, Pakistan and many others in Africa. Travelling to Colombia is prevented by the governments of developed countries and the country is presented as a battlefield. Make Colombia along with Iraq is that a city like Bogotá have a war like situation in Baghdad and that's not true. Say what is the most violent country is also difficult, especially if the source itself is violent. Certainly, Iceland has more moral right to say which nations, societies and cultures are the most violent, but for that Iceland would need to invest large sums in intellectuals who visit every country in the world and present a good report of facts.
  Among the 36 most developed nations of the world, the first more violent the United States for 2005 shows a number of 500 000 crimes with a firearm, that is, 166 people died in a population of 100 thousand According to the site of economy "Green light

". In Colombia in 2006, according to reports published by the National Police

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If you say that Colombia is dangerous as Iraq, you mean that the Colombian cities are under attack, bombs in public places and other terrorist acts. Surely that is not what they mean to those who like world rankings. They mean that in Colombia there is a political conflict and you should take precautions when traveling to Colombia, but that conclusion is not understood in this way for those who see the name of Colombia next to the name of Iraq. What we mean is that you can compare the violence of Colombia to Iraq and would be more accurate compared to the United States.

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If we continue with numbers, we must say that Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica are the most peaceful countries in the Americas - thousands of times more than the U.S.. In Chile only two people are killed in a population of 100 mil. Argentina compared to Chile, the country is "very violent" with 6 people killed with firearms in a group of 100 thousand. In this case, the name of the United States should appear in the airports of Santiago and Buenos Aires as a country rather violent to visit where you have the chance to be killed 166 times in a group of 100 thousand. However, although you may be killed 6 times in Argentina in a group of 100 thousand, you can die in Argentina due to a traffic accident in a country with one of the highest rates of automobile accidents in the world, according to the Argentina campaign "Fight
" which stated that 20 people die daily in the country (Seven thousand a year) more than 120 000 injured in road accidents. Please take care when crossing roads in Argentina. But in this case, America is first to Argentina: according to the Pan American Health Organization
in its 2004 report, of the 130 000 people killed in traffic accidents in the Americas, 44,500 occurred in the United States that year. In 2002, the OPS said that between the two continents there were 128,908 people killed in auto accidents and of these the majority (76%) occurred in the most populous countries in the Western Hemisphere are, in order that the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia !

Violence and poverty
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is very important to study the violence because it also shows the reality of a country in its development and progress. One of the main reasons for the violence is poverty and lack of opportunities. The violence also comes from the injustice and exploitation systems. In the minds of leaders willing to stop the violence, arms is the last thing that should be thought as a solution. Canada, Costa Rica and Chile are Western models of society and unarmed violence is close to zero. Military aid and investment promotion self-defense is a bad investment and is only produced violence. Countries like the United States and Colombia are spending big money in weapons and this has been for them a bad idea. U.S. weapons reach easily into the hands of children and we have heard tragic news of blood at school events. Paramilitary groups in Colombia surrendered their weapons and violence statistics down. Even if the act still has no clear and specific legal framework, in this case is a concrete example that violence is caused by armed persons. Colombian ancestral wisdom says that a man with a gun is ready to use. Few people buy guns to keep them behind glass. Social investment instead gives better results for a country. It is possible that many of the upper classes who live in glass bubbles in Colombia still do not understand that the promotion of classes brings about peace, investment, progress and justice for his country.
According to World Bank (pdf)
in his study of violence in Latin America, the region lost 14.2% of GDP because of the violence and that means $ 168 million. The loss of human capital means loss of 1.9% of GDP and it is the same of what Latin America goes to primary school. The transfer of funds from victims to criminals in America means loss 2.1% of GDP. Violence means losing a lot of money that could go to social investment, investment in suppressing violence means further loss of GDP to give low results.





"Peasant" by David Johnston . Caution! Medellín is a Colombian.
Recently the National Police of Colombia gave a positive report about violence in the country fell in the last year. Especially in Medellín and Bogotá showed positive numbers. In that report it is said that violence was reduced through collaboration between citizens and discussions with police and paramilitary groups and other circumstances all related to the military. This is based, of course, if people lose their fear of criminals and have the ability to denounce and defend the peace of his city. But the account is short: more than that, Medellín and Bogotá have undergone unprecedented social investment in Colombia's history, organization, infrastructure and increased community participation. The two cities are now places of great pride and development. To congratulate the National Police for their work in this area is necessary and motivate them to continue is a must. But we have to consider that the reduction of violence in the two main cities of Colombia comes from a more complex process where politicians, community leaders, youth, NGOs, observers, scholars, visitors and many other elements have worked together to return the city to its people and visitors, not criminals . Bogota and Medellin should be an example to follow in the rest of the country, but this should keep giving attention to the disadvantaged. Bibliography
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Percepctión of taxi drivers in Cali over the city and the civic culture
. Mayor of Santiago de Cali, July 30, 2007. * Traffic accidents in the world . Fight for life, civil partnership, Argentina. *
This violence occurs in Cali
. Vice-President. August 8, 2007. Medellin stopped
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homicidal streak. David E. Santos Gómez. El Colombiano, Medellin, July 2007. * Violence in Latin America, Epidemiology and costs. (Pdf) Juan Luis Londono and Rodrigo Guerrero. Network research office chief economist, Inter-American Development Bank, August 1999. * most violent countries. Green light. * Violence USA

, Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology.
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World Day 2004 road safety. Pan American Health Organization. Statistics of the Americas.

Cite this RHODES TORRES, Reinaldo Albeiro. Violence. Colombia Passport: Economics, Society and Culture in Colombia. Sihanoukville, August 8, 2007. Can be reproduced with attribution.