Leaders Of South America

Columbia

Columbia has long had a democratic political system, supposedly. Columbia, really, has a conservative elite dominating the government. These leaders are mostly owners of coffee plantations who have a lot of money and a lot of power. Anyone who tries to take over control of the government usually end up getting killed. When Marxist guerrilla groups organized the peasants and fought back, more than 200,000 peasants lost their lives. Once peasants, who lived in poverty, started to grow coca leaves for cocaine to try to bring in more money for their families, the drug trade increased. Now in Columbia there is much violence and a lot of drug lords to go along with the drug trade.

Coca Leaves, when granulated, makes Cocaine.

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