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- 1: Colombia
- Colombia is located in the northwestern part of South America. Colombia's neighboring countries are Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. It has coasts on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Their relations with these countries are very good because of the trading factor. Colombia's relations with Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador are very strong because they are all apart of a trading agreement known as the Andean Group. Colombia's relations with Brazil and Panama are also very ...
- 2: Xerox
- ... show a bias towards American products as recently as 1998. As written in Carol Casper s New York Times article, There is a lot of interest in U.S. concepts and products... in not only Colombia but also all of Latin America. The interest has caused more American firms to begin to see these developing attitudes and expand their businesses into Latin America. For Xerox to also take part in this ... although, are not welcoming these companies with open arms. There is an interest in the U.S. businesses but as Dianna Jean Schemo reports; it is not uncommon to be threatened by the cartels of Colombia. These cartels want in on the inflow of money and will get involved in kidnappings and murderer if they see it necessary. In 1996, the last year these figures are available, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 19,645 homicides while in Colombia there were 26,627. For the fear of being on the wrong end of such instances American businesses need to be extra careful when trying to penetrate the Colombian marketplace. Xerox would not be ...
- 3: Colombia
- Colombia HISTORY Colombia was one of the first parts of the New World to be explored by the Spanish. Christopher Columbus for whom the country is named, never visited the area. In 1510 Spaniards founded Santa Maria la ... valley of the Magdalena and conquered the powerful Chibcha Indians and in 1538 founded New Granada and Bogota. In 1717 Bogota became the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada which consisted of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. An important revolt occurred in 1810 when a junta at Bogota declared itself the government of New Granada. A bitter and long struggle between the insurgents and the royalists led ...
- 4: Colombia
- Colombia In Colombia the population is34,942,767people,the highest point in Colombia is in Cristobal Colon it is 18,947ft. tall the lowest point is at sealevel along the coasts. The main river systems are the Oninoco and the Amazon The main mountain range is the ...
- 5: Colombia
- Colombia Climate The climate, however, varies with the elevation. The low regions along the coast and the deep Patía and Magdalena river valleys are torrid, with mean annual temperatures of 75° to 80° F. From about ... Along the Pacific coast precipitation is heavy. At Bogotá the annual rainfall averages about 40 in, and in Barranquilla it averages about 32 in. Dry weather prevails on the slopes of the Eastern Cordillera. Government Colombia has a Republican form of government. Colombia has a president who is elected by popular vote. He is chosen by any man or woman 18 years or older. The president can serve one four year term. He appoints a cabinet which ...
- 6: Historical Roots Of Macondo An
- ... this book that then became his master piece, only because he wanted to talk about an imagined town, an imagined family and their failure. Or, is the book a metaphor for Latin America s, specifically Colombia s and her peoples history. Did Marquez write this book to paste it on history as an example of a history not to be repeated again, to paste it as a warning. As the second ... voice is heard and his effort is appreciated. The civil war that takes place between chapter six and chapter ten in One Hundred Years of Solitude is in fact based on the civil war in Colombia after their independence from Spain in 1820. The civil war in Colombia started in 1899 and over 100.000 peoples were killed till the war was ended in 1902. The Civil war was called the War of A Thousand Days and it was Colombia s most ...
- 7: The Grasp Drugs Have On Colomb
- The Grasp Drugs Have on Colombia The paper is going to examine the effect and extent to which drugs have a grip on the country of Colombia. This subject runs deep into the Colombian culture, and effects a huge range of people. People all the way from the President clear down to the farmer/peasant. Drugs and drug trafficking are part of ... they were sent to the U.S. These criminals would stand trial, and were guaranteed to be put in jail for years. If they were not sent to the U.S., and simply kept in Colombia they would see little jail time. In most instances they would pay their way out of jail, and be right back into the drug trade as soon as they hit the street. This crack ...
- 8: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... joined by a canal built, owned, operated, policed, and fortified by his counTheodore Roosevelty. The canal was to be the first step to American supremacy at sea” (McCullough 250). Theodore Roosevelt had little patience when Colombia, whose state of Panama had been chosen as the site of the canal, hesitated. The United States wanted to buy the works at the site that the French Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama had already begun and become disillusioned with. Colombia demanded a piece of the pie—it was Colombia’s land, after all—and would not be satisfied with the Theodore Roosevelteaty that everyone in Washington was convinced was fair. The American minister to Colombia, Arthur Beaupré, wrote that the Colombians did not ...
- 9: Mexico's Drug Trade
- ... include heroine, cocaine, and marijuana - begin as the poppy, coca, and marijuana plants respectively. These plants grow well, and quickly, in Latin American countries that experience a relatively hot, humid climate year round such as Colombia, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. Due to these favorable weather conditions, Latin American farmers can easily harvest these plants three to four times a year and stand to earn a much greater profit ... for the first time during his administration. This time, Mexican ruling-party stalwart Jorge Caprizo MacGregor was accused of leaking U.S. Customs Intelligence reports and helping arrange a twenty ton shipment of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico aboard a tanker owned by a subcontractor of Mexico’s state oil industry (Dettmer 10). On the subject of the U.S. governments naive attitude towards the corruption incited by the Juarez based ... crops produced in Latin American countries, the previous figures show that peasant farmers still view illegal drug cultivation as advantageous due to the profits it brings. In August of 1996, near the town of Putumayo, Colombia, coca farmers revolted against their own government's attempts to eradicate their crops by blocking muddy roads and airstrips in which eradication aircraft was to take off. Nearly 30,000 peasant farmers showed support ...
- 10: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... US relations with the countries of Latin America. So, as each of these countries has to pay the costs of Yankee Imperialism, the tension between neighbors is increasing. The first of the tensions comes from Colombia. Unfortunately, our crusade against drugs has caused the famous cartels of South America and, especially, those of Colombia. Many wonder if we are justified in putting pressure on these countries just to slow the drug trade. The deaths of thousands of innocent Colombians were the result of our actions in these countries (Evans ... Ernesto Samper] was said to have taken money from drug traffickers so that the government would stop other groups from exporting cocaine. Because of the problems South American countries have faced because of Drug Prohibition, Colombia's Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez has written a manifesto declaring the drug war as "useless" (15). Action abroad by the United States has also led to an increase in subversive organizations ...
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