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You'v obviously never been to Colombia. Don't judge a country on the problems that they face. Can we judge the US on our lack of solutions in the war on drugs?
All what is happening in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador has been previously planned by Chavez and his gang FARC. I think that the war is unavoidable as Chavez has bought a lot of guns and weaponry to take control of Colombia and impose his political views. As a Colombian citizen I'm willing to fight against this monster and his demoniacs allies.
Colombia has been a cooperative partner with US for years, battled murderous FARC thugs, endured the highest kidnapping rate in the world, suffered immense persecution in the US press, and now has the added bonus of a paranoid, bipolar egomaniac President in Venezuela who thinks he is heir to the Castro legacy. After living in Colombia for several years, the thing that strikes most about the Colombian people is their resiliency and graciousness. Colombia is maligned in every movie made in the west about drug trafficking (most are filmed in Mexico) as a backward, bucolic nightmare, when in reality, it is nothing like that at all. How they live day to day when the country has so many lethal threats is a mystery. The FARC is not the glamorous legacy of Che - or even a traditional Communist Insurgency - they are a group of ruthless criminals and psychopaths who want to make money. Thousands of Colombian soldiers and police and scores of judges have been murdered by the FARC. As former Chief of Police Serrano once said, I have run out of things to say to the widows and mothers of my dead police officers. Colombia is doing a much better job of eradicating this evil over the past few months and certainly deserves continued US support.
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