Colombia Current Events and News

Colombia is currently one of the most affected countries in the world by landmines. So do not cross the country easily without consulting local people. Of the 32 states in Colombia, 31 provinces were discovered and daily guerrillas, paramilitary organizations and drug traffickers planted new landmines. Due to agreement with the government in 2005, disarmament of some paramilitary regimes was done. However, paramilitary organizations are still actively working in the pharmaceutical industry and are forcing rackets and political power. It is not unique to tourists, but in more dangerous areas there is the possibility of encountering illegal rural barriers.

Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged after the collapse of the Grand Columbia in 1830. San Francisco de Paula Santander became the national president. Since Colombian independence, the name of Colombia changed many times, followed by Granada Republic, then the Granada Commonwealth, then the Colombian Republic, and then the Republic of Colombia. The history of Colombia is full of fierce conflict between Conservative Party and Liberal Party. The most prominent of these conflicts was the civil war that occurred between 1899 and 1903 and was known as the "thousand day war". The war killed about 100,000 people. Colombia also lost some of the northern territory in the conflict and eventually became Panama. Tension was intensified and the conflict lasted until 1958. From 1948 to 1957, Colombia experienced the most serious political dispute.

The main epicenter of the current crisis is Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, and the Andean countries. Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru. Colombia has caused serious crises for decades. The political war between the two major political parties, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party released the civil war in the late 1950s, which meant peace between the two, but never never introduced the country as a country Is the main background of armed conflict in rural areas. The country started living in a relationship of schizophrenia between the institutionalized political regime with a 70% abstention rate and the countryside.