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Article: Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations for US Involvement.
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
- Author:
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Very early, the state gave birth to twins--politics, the means of influencing the state, and crime, the means of avoiding the state. The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly by politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state-avoidance options. For what Latin Americans call los marginados (the marginals), crime may be a rational economic choice. When it suits them, groups may combine politics and crime, using some of one and some of the other. The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
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... ... 08-1997 BOGOTA, Aug. 7 (IPS) -- Colombia's President Ernesto Samper entered ... enemies," and helping "the people of Colombia," which has been his "only goal ... United States should reduce pressure on Colombia to prevent the outbreak of waves of nationalism ...
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