Colombia

Narcos emulates the real life notorious story of Pablo Escobar, the kingpin of drugs in Colombia as well as the widespread of cocaine globally. Simply, this ill-famous story makes the blood run cold of many. It is not easy for a man like Escobar to do his job with the perpetual efforts of the law enforcement whose goal is to ultimately kill and diminish Escobar. The two main characters of this story Steve Murphy who is a DEA agent and Escobar go head to head in a ferocious conflict. Brancato,…

had to undergo intense struggle in order to achieve fame and success. To me, it seemed like the typical story line of any other telenovela that we’ve watched. The only major difference was that Helenita Vargas was Colombian and that she grew up in Colombia around the same time that my mother did. I think…

named one of the ten richest people on earth by Fortune and Forbes magazines. Escobar wealth estimate is $30 million. Although he was a dangerous criminal, he spent a lot of his money on helping poor people. Escobar wanted to be the president of Colombia. He did his best in fixing his public…

Although Colombia is afflicted with high levels of governmental corruption the prospects for democracy are hopeful. While the nation does face a drug trafficking problem and high inequality, the democratic ideals, ethnically and religiously monolithic culture, and market economy provide the necessary fodder to incite a democratic revolution. By splitting USAID between good governance and civil society issues of corruption and media censorship can be resolved, providing Colombia with conditions…

Ecuador (Infoplease). The Republic of Colombia has a republic based government with three branches similar to the United States. The Executive branch dominates the government with Juan Manuel Santos Calderon as the president. Bogota is the capital city of Colombia with 9.765 million residents World Factbook). The official currency is the Colombian Peso. In 1837 it replaced the Real which was worth one…

FOR ABORTION In countries like Colombia abortion is a very controversial topic because there are many points of view about that. As we all know abortion is the way a woman finishes a pregnancy and it could be spontaneous or induced depending of the situation. My for points of view about this start by saying that abortion materializes the right of women to decide what to do with her body without having a state or society exerting pressure on her free will. Besides this is a principle of…

My individual is Luis Garavito, he is currently 60 years old but was forty-two years old when he was arrested; committing murders for 7 years without being caught. Luis lived in while he was a Child Génova, Quindío, Colombia. He committed his crimes in more than fifty-nine towns in columbia. He had a troubled young life he attended school for 5 years and he left home at 16 because he was sexually and mentally abused by his father and several neighbors. At a young age he was an alcoholic…

Pablo Escobar, born in December of 1949, was the leader Columbian Medellin Cartel, controlling vast empire of drugs and murders internationally. Escobar was accepted into provincial university, but soon dropped out due to finical inability, eventually turning to crimes such as car theft and later marijuana growth. After partnering with Joe Ochoa, their profits from the distribution of marijuana quickly rose, and the duo expanded into the new cocaine business. Escobar soon established himself as…

Powerful and ruthless, Pablo Escobar created a cocaine empire. The task of brining Pablo Escobar to justice required the United State to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and the deployment of some of the United States most technologically advanced intelligence services of the day. Signals Intelligence gained from an Intelligence Support Activity organization codenamed “Centra Spike” was the key to finding Pablo Escobar and played an integral role in the largest manhunt the world had seen at…

Everyone who lives in the United States deserves the opportunity for their chance at higher education and a job, but there is a group of Americans who are restricted to the access of this opportunity. This group is known as undocumented students. For all Americans, in this case the undocumented, to have the same access to that opportunity, a piece of legislation needs to be passed in Congress. This legislation is known as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act).…