Appearances can be deceptive

Even though the economy in the capital cities is usually better, poor families can also be found both in the cities' outskirts and inside the city. To set a good example, let's analize the living conditions in Cartagena. As it is a historic and touristic city of Colombia, you would probably expect it to be the city with the lowest rate of social inequality. Nevertheless, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it is very common to hear about violent, tragic and moving happenings there. According to a research, approximately two quarters of the population have financial problems there and it has been forcasted that the numbers will stay the same at least until the end of the year 2014. 

Religious foundations

For several decades, Colombia has been a country with a strong catholic tradition. Hence, the church is one of the most important institutions nowadays. Thanks to its influence it has managed to reunite integrants of different social classes with the purpose of giving a hand to everyone who needs it. This is how throughout the years, plenty religios foundations have arosen all over the country. In order to ensure social equality an a brighter future for every Colombian, they have embarked on endeavors not only to collect goods like food, clothes and money, but also to build houses and educate the children of families with low incomes. 

What should the government do to abolish poverty in these cities?

What the government should do is building new schools for those children who can`t pay education. In Cauca and Chocó the government built some schools so that way children who lived there could have a very good education for their future.
Besides that the same idea is to be done in another cities such as Córdoba, La Guajira and Magdalena.
As a matter of fact government should abolish the private universities because for those students who graduate from school can`t study a career to become a professional and then to find the way to get a good job and like this building his/her own future.

Another point to have in mind is to give home to those family who are more in need of it, to be fair the family could pay monthly an average of money to get the house in a legal way. Like this poverty would decrease the amount of people in need. 


Finally, what government should do is to give a better health supports, medicine and hospitals, because it is a need for everyone and some people don`t have the chance to get a good service when they are sick.

The most poor places in Colombia

Chocó, Cauca, Córdoba, La Guajira and Magdalena are the most poor cities in Colombia, which suffer the worst situations about food, money and job opportunities. These cities are like this because of violence, lack of food, lack of education and the lack of will to work.

The average of poverty in every city is:

-Chocó (40.7 per cent)
-Cauca (34 per cent)
-La Guajira (27.7 per cent)
-Córdoba (27.3 per cent)
-Magdalena (17.4 per cent)

Besides that there are other places in Colombia that are involved in bad situations such as:

-Bogotá (2 per cent)
-Santander (4.6 per cent)
-Atlántico (4.7 per cent)

The rise of drug dealing

There was a time when the drug dealing became the only way for people with low incomes to earn money. After the civil war some citizens lived below the poverty line because they were unemployed or had lost everything because of the war. Simmultaniously, the drug dealing was acquiring importance so that they wanted to get into it. In this way, the number of drug dealers rose and the country was soon 

infested with drug traffickers.

The respective supperters fought most battles in the rural countryside. Consequently, a large number of peasants migrated to cities. Thus, leaving only violence, tragedies and desolation in the countryside.

Throughout the years the cities prospered, the number of industries there gradually grew up and they became the main source of the country's incomes. On the contrary, the situation in the countryside worsened, not only due to the civil war, but also because now the cities had turned into the goverment's inversions focus. For that reason, the industrialization took place almost exclusively in the urban zones, whilst there was a growing lack of resources in the villages.

Death of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán

Tragically, he was murdered during his second presidential campaign. It is rumored that the killer was a member of the Conservative Party and the motive of the homocide was that Gaitán was very likely to the win the upcoming presidential elections. As a result of his assassination, an uprising was set off; leading to a civil war between the Colombian Conservative Party, the Colombian Liberal Party and plenty groups of citizens who had their own political ideals and considered violence to be the only way to grab the goverment's attention and be finally heard. (It is importand to point out that several of these groups gave rise to the communist guerrillas later. However, we want to avoid wandering off the subject, so that we will come back to this in a future entry.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n

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