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Encounter Quarterly: Summer 2004
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Bogotá, Colombia. |
Colombia Crisis Worst in Hemisphere
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Drug cartels and
decades of guerilla warfare continue to plague
Colombia. Recent reports from the United Nations
call the situation the third worst humanitarian
crisis in the world. Associated Press reports that
more than 2 million people have been displaced and
tribes of Indians threatened with extinction.
According to UN Undersecretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs Jan Engeland, “Colombia is,
therefore, by far the biggest humanitarian
catastrophe in the Western Hemisphere.”
EQ Summer 2004
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