Carnival in Colombia

Do you know someone who crossed the border to find opportunity and success in the U.S?Mexicans are the hardest workers in America and aren’t being treated that way.Mexican immigrants should be documented and made U.S citizens. Mexican immigrants just like any person in the u.s pay there taxes .Up to 8 million mexicans in the U.S paid there taxes,making it two-thirds that live here.The taxes paid for include income taxes ,medicare and social security taxes.The revenue from illegal…

A man makes the most daring crossing of his life. After gathering all of his courage he crosses something that could be his new life or his undoing, the U.S., Mexico border. No matter what he does, from this moment on he lives in the shadows. This story has become more and more common as illegal or otherwise known as undocumented immigrants have been entering and living in large numbers in the U.S. Their presence has seeped into the fabric of the country, even it’s politics today. As…

can make are out of this world, I thought. In the summer of 2015, I took an unexpected trip with my family to Guatape; we wanted to see something different, a place or a thing that we had never seen before, and La Piedra de Guatape in my country Colombia seemed like the perfect idea. La Piedra de Guatape is a stone surrounded by water and small islands in a region…

What is Border Security? Border Security is the protection from illegal weapons, drugs, and people that are trying to come across the border into the U.S. Some pros of Border Security is that it protects us from terrorism/danger, and we have more jobs for the people that live here already. Some cons of Border Security is America is pretty much immigration itself, legal immigration still exists, there will always be a way in no matter what, and it creates more jobs and ideas for people. I am not…

Charles Taylor was a former Liberian president was sentenced to a 50-year jail sentence on charges of aiding and abetting war crimes during the brutal civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. In 1989 Charles Taylor stared the Liberia civil war. He was a warlord and was elected president in 1997. For six year, before he was forced into exile in Nigeria he governed Liberia. He was convicted for 11 charges of war crime and crime against humanity. This was for his alleged role in the brutal civil…

Every country in the world has problems, but not quite as large as Colombia. Their problem affects everyone living in the country and even tourists. Colombia is the biggest player in the trafficking of coca in the world. Their production has increased greatly, the FARC control almost all of the drug trade business, and the eradication program is failing. Colombia is the biggest cocaine producer in the world. Peru and Bolivia are the second and third top producers, and this country is…

Over the previous hundres of years, Colombia has seen a great deal of occurences of ligitimate and illicit financial resettlement and with displaced people entering the nation. Even though United States is the country with the largest amount of refugees in the world, Colombia is still considered the country with the largest amount in Latin America. The large amoutn of refugees have mostly been due to forced displacement due to violence created by guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the colombian…

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the fiercest structures ever put together. Pablo came from a family with limited means. He lived with both his parents, his father was a farmer, and his mother was teacher. As a child, Escobar started out as a small-time thief. Sandblasting tombstones and reselling them, later he started stealing cars. This is when he got his start in trafficking illegal drugs. His first arrest was at the age of 26 for possession of cocaine, he never…

all the drug cartels importing cocaine and marijuana since the 1970’s. Colombia is only associated with drug and crime. Colombia is the connection between Central America and South America. Colombia has access to four businesses routes the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Central America and South America. Due to being the center of all these countries and having different possible routes encouraged the involvement of Colombia Organized Crime. The Colombian Organized groups began buying high…

One of the biggest exporters in the world is Colombia. Their influence in the drug trade reaches all the way back to the 1980's when brutal cartels were dominant. Today, Colombia's trade still exists and is as strong as ever. Drug trafficking has an influence on Colombia and the world because of the role it plays in destroying the environment, causing civil unrest, and affecting the economy. While many drugs are produced and manufactured in Colombia, most materials used in making the drugs are…