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Colombia has a high crime rate due to being a center for the cultivation and trafficking of cocaine.The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity conflict between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to ...
The State Department is warning Americas to "reconsider" visiting Jamaica and Colombia due to safety risks. Here's what travelers should know. State Department urges travelers to ‘reconsider ...
As of 2023, the United States of America OSAC Country Security Report advises that travelers reconsider visiting Colombia due to crime and terrorism. The report assesses Bogota a critical-threat location and Cartagena as a high-threat location.
Police in Colombia say the number of people kidnapped fell 92% between 2000 and 2016. [3] As of 2016, common criminals were the perpetrators of the overwhelming majority of kidnappings. [3] By the year 2016, the number of kidnappings in Colombia had declined to 205 and it has continued to decline.
Trade union membership in Colombia has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. [40] According to Justice for Colombia, a British NGO campaigning for human rights and an end to trade union violence in Colombia, this is due to a combination of factors: 'Less than 5% of Colombian workers are members of trade unions – the lowest level in the Americas.
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
In 2010, 3.4% of the children under 5 years old in Colombia suffer from global malnutrition (deficiency of weight for age) and up to 13% suffer from chronic malnutrition (deficiency of height for age). The situation is worse for the indigenous peoples of Colombia, who in the same indicators recorded rates of 7.5% and 29.5% respectively. [7]
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