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Colombia’s security strategy lures travelers back
“Five years ago, it would have been impossible for people to travel by highway from Bogota to Medellin,” said Luis Guillermo Plata, Colombia’s minister of commerce, industry and tourism. “Many people drove to this Inter-American Development Bank meeting by car.”
LT | May 30, 2009 | Comments 0
Frail State, Frayed Relations: Mexico, the United States and the Drug Wars
In 2005, when almost 1,000 people were killed in the rising narcotics violence in Mexico, most people dismissed comparisons with the bloodshed Colombia had experienced in prior years. But by 2008, when 6,000 people died in gangland-style slayings, gruesome torture-killings and full-scale massacres, the violence had crept into the public consciousness and Mexicans began referring to the carnage as simply “war.”
Jane Bussey | Mar 30, 2009 | Comments 1
