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Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin Cartel In the late 1970s, the illegal cocaine trade took off and became a major source of profit. By 1982, cocaine surpassed coffee as a national export, making up 30% of all Colombian exports. Many members of the new class of wealthy drug barons began purchasing enormous quantities of land for a number of reasons: in order to launder their drug money and to ...
A series of protests began in Colombia on 28 April 2021 against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform proposed by the government of President Iván Duque.The tax initiative was introduced to expand funding to Ingreso Solidario, a universal basic income social program established in April 2020 to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, while the legislative Bill ...
Olavarría is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the administrative seat of the Olavarría Partido and has over 111,320 inhabitants, per the 2010 census [ INDEC ] . The settlement was officially founded on 25 November 1867, and named in honour of Colonel José Valentín de Olavarría (1801–1845), an early Argentine ...
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Migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has declined significantly this month since Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino took office and ordered authorities to get control ...
San José. Website. www .olavarria .gov .ar. Olavarría Partido is a partido in the central region of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina . The provincial subdivision has a population of about 104,000 inhabitants in an area of 7,715 km 2 (2,979 sq mi), and its capital city is Olavarría, which is around 350 km (220 mi) from Buenos Aires .
Policarpa Salavarrieta. Policarpa Salavarrieta (c. 26 January 1795 – 14 November 1817), also known as La Pola , Or phantom of Bogota was a Neogranadine seamstress who spied for the Revolutionary Forces during the Spanish Reconquista of the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
The following is a list of notable massacres in Colombia. According to the Grupo de Memoria Histórica, there were 2505 massacres in Colombia between 1973 and 2008. [1] The Colombian government defines "massacre" as the killing of 4 or more people in the same act. [2]