Our World

Colombias Drug Problem

In class today we discussed how Colombia had the highest murder rate in the world. A lot of the violence from Colombia stems back from the high amounts of drug trafficking that go through there to the United States. There is also high rates of kidnapping. Most of these crimes are commited by either left wing (geurrillas) or right wing groups. Some of these groups are even backed by the government, so there is a lot of corruption as well. The US has spent money trying to stop Cocain from coming here, and so far they have spent about 3 million dollars and not much has happened. It is important that we take care of this because Colombia has lots of natural resources like gold and oil. They also have lots of coffee.

posted by Anonymous @ 3/01/2006 09:47:00 PM