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I hope that the talks are successful.
If so, it will the first step in righting some of the many wrongs done to the people of Columbia by all sides and outside parties. It is heartening to hear that the current Columbian Govt is trying hard to remedy some of the past wrongs. I also hope that the corporate entities that profited so largely from their crimes in South America are forced to make reparations for their egregious conduct.
Peace is hard to achieve after the bitterness of internal conflict. It take courage and integrity on all sides to make it work. One way of maximising those chances is to ensure that all the guilty parties are sanctioned appropriately so that the slate can be wiped clean.
Will a legalisation of the drug trade help resolution? Is there anything else outsiders can do to help achieve peace and reconciliation in Columbia?
The best thing for outsiders interested is to study the matter and make up their own opinions as to the actors in this great tragedy, and give these foreign actors no ground to stand on in their homelands.
As for drugs and their legislation, it likely would not matter, for drug production and trafficking is a function of the general lawlessness of the times in the area and the unemployment of the trained corporate and government proxy paramilitary forces the North Americans and the Europeans used in earlier times. Once these men became unemployed after being used to the high wages across Latin America, they and various prospective patrones naturally used their skills in other ways. They would have found other crimes to commit using their skills as thugs if drugs were not available.
The US, the English, the South Africans and the Israelis are known to have provided military contractors and mercenaries to act and also train the paramilitaries.
Many foreign oil company's there are alleged to have used paramilitaries at times either to chase the people off their lands, take lands for pipe lines and such, or to suppress dissent against their activities, though the widely known proof so far is that only BP, Shell and Chevron are demonstrated in courts so far as being proven past any denial of involvement.
Other types of businesses are alleged to use these thugs, even Coca-Cola - http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm
We could operate a complete forum on t Columbia, especially if Spanish language sourses could be used.
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