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Crossing Colombia from South to North April 12 - 26

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April 23rd 2011
You must have maximal 5 murders per 100.000 inhabitants a year to be a safe country, says the United Nations, which knows these things precisely. Ciudad Juarez in Mexico has 191 murders. So it is clearly not so safe. It is even the best place in the world to be, when you are tired of life. Compared with Ciudad Juarez the Colombian town Cali is doing very well with its 86 murders, as we read in the ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more