Surely worst than the long Colombian conflict, it is the reality of its street children in the biggest cities. The Gamín (street boy in Colombian idioms), became almost a traditional character. Even if some people and groups complain of the lack of more definitive projects to end the problem of unprotected children in the Colombian streets, it is possible to find a good list of institutions, private and officials, doing something. The problem stands in the same conflict. Only the growing number of displaced farm families, fleeing from war-zones and taking refuse in the cities, is a definitive source of children on the streets with all its consequences.
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There have been only two big groups of foreign migration into Colombia since the 16th century: the Spaniards that led a conquest over the territory and migrated by different groups over the next 300 years, and the Arabs since the 19th century. Other groups of migrations have been less notice and rapidly integrated to the culture due to its small numbers from Europe, the Americas and China, most of the them to the Colombian Caribbean coasts and cities like Barranquilla, Santa Marta and Cartagena.
But Colombia has not been a country of migrants. Most naturally, it has been a expelling of its own population during its most difficult times. In 2005 the National Administrative Department for Statistics (DANE) reported that 3,310,107 Colombians were living abroad, a number that represents the 10 percent of the population.
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According with DANE´s comparative research for 2008
The National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia, DANE (its Spanish acronym), published a comparative study about the standard of living of Colombians. The study analyzes the conditions of living of poor and not poor families in Colombia in what it has to see with housing, public services and members of the family such education, health, care for children, work force, expenses and incomes.
The typical Colombian families for 2008 were made by an average of 3.7 persons, while in 2003 it was 3.9 persons per family. Electricity registered an increase to 89.4 percent of the national population.
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Chile should be a country of the so called First World for 2020. At least it is the will of the government of president Michele Bachelet. It was in 2008 when the Minister of Public Works launched a challenging project in infrastructures to develop the country with the year 2020 in mind: the country should be at that time a developped nation.
Karl Lippert, President of Bavaria. Photo Dinero.com
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Karl Lippert, the president of Bavaria, the Colombian Beer Company, said that fighting poverty is a duty for all companies and development organizations in the country. Even if Colombia has improved social conditions in the last decades, 48% of the population still under poverty, said Lippert in Portafolio.com.co. “That is not a benefit for anybody“, he writes.
Another personality who died in Colombia recently was Orlando Fals Borda, a name that became common in the Colombian universities and at large in the Latin American world of intellectuals. What is the meaning of Fals Borda as a scholar for the studies of the Colombian society is something that will come when his work will be review under a more analitic context.
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