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...coughed up by wealthy private citizens. Because of the magnitude of the problems confronting the city of 20 million, the expense seems warranted. Ineffective laws, an often corrupt police force and widespread poverty have given the city the second highest crime rate in Latin America after Bogota, Colombia. Rudy, after you clean up Mexico City, there's a pesky problem in Kabul...
...least some logic to this concept—sometimes peace is so elusive that war is the only viable option. This controversial idea holds little water when war is a potentially viable solution, but none at all if the conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply not in a military position to crush FARC, and even if it were, in so doing it would leave a power vacuum that AUC would gladly fill. As Lee points out, the government handed FARC a huge swath of land in the middle of Colombia, and FARC?...
According to James G. LeMoyne ’74-’75, who is currently an SRSG overseeing the U.N. presence in Colombia, the job entails peace-keeping and nation-building efforts...
...Colombia gave peace a chance. In 1999 the government effectively ceded the FARC a territory the size of Switzerland as a condition for negotiations. Until this year, when the government retook nominal control, this supposedly demilitarized zone had provided the guerillas a safe haven to train, improve their equipment and learn tactics from Irish Republican Army veterans. The guerillas took less interest in the peace talks, always demanding more concessions for the privilege of their company...
Recently, the deadly peace process collapsed, discrediting former President Pastrana and opening the door to the election of his hardliner opponent. In Colombia, that’s the good news. When two sides can never live in peace, there is no reason for preventing the resolution that can only be achieved through...