Dangers in Colombia South America
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Bags are packed, plane leaves in about two hours and all you can think about doing is going to get away from this boring place and broaden your horizons with some place tropical. Somewhere warm, entertaining and in a word, exotic. Destination Colombia to be exact. You feel as if you are carefree as you enter a place unlike the ordinary, but what you do not know is what it's like for those who are not here for an adventure, those who regularly see the second most dangerous country in the world as home to them. Those who live there and don't know what the United States is like. Enter into a world of poverty, a world of violence, and most of all a world of pain. Discover the brief history of the country of Colombia, the horrors stemmed from it, as well as ways to take precaution when visiting a foreign country.
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