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The article deals mainly with the serious problems which had plagued Colombia in various aspects for decades, between them, delinquency, violence, economic situation and especially the impotence of the government to see his reaction to these problems was entirely invalid.

Talk about a famous British historian that he felt a great affection for South America, that this first visited Colombia taking a expectation to find a country full of flora and fauna, beautiful landscapes with its Caribbean and Pacific coasts and Amazonian rainforests, finding this in our country, but unfortunately it was the most notable problem evident that was happening at that, exactly on 18 August 1989, When the Medellin cartel had taken power not only in this city, also of great part of the territory of the country remains the most serious thing that the other party was not any of the government, the remaining territory was commanded by guerrillas and other drug cartels not with so much power but at the end of the day drug traffickers; Still the time to that witnessed the unfortunate fact of the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan caused by the Medellin cartel and also the different attacks, abductions and murders to judges and journalists.

It was a time very complex in regard to the social, Colombians lived fear, fear of not being able to exit quietly in the family to a shopping center or to an amusement park without the fear of being received with a pump, and finish with the father of the family including children abducted.

The article also refers to what you have to do with the topography and geography of Colombia, to see that Bogota for many people from other cities and towns is the most remote and distant capital, therefore the state was not fixed in some populations which could not be or arrive either because they were held by drug traffickers or by the fear of being kidnapped by the guerrillas, now that we know that Colombia is the country with the guerrilla insurgency more ancient of the world.

Speaking of a time closest to the present the government has already managed to stabilize many roads in the country, has achieved a better balance with regard to the country's infrastructure and same has turned what before were drug cartels, and small criminal groups although still lack, because, although the drug remains frenzy is still highly profitable.

The author speaks of the time where the former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez begins his mandate in Colombia, focusing on reducing the power guerrilla in the area; therefore I am taking something of the view that the large oil companies of the country could perform its mining activity since before the guerrillas did not authorize.

Arriving at a time present, with a country controlled by Juan Manuel Santos, it has a minimum hope but at the end of the day hope to achieve peace, even though Colombia is not a country that is catalogd

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