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My experience traveling in Colombia was that they are generally quite down on it because of the harm they see the illegal drug trade has done to their country.

It's the worst kind of resource curse.



As a colombian, I can confirm.

Yet there are people who still idolize Pablo Escobar or think that becoming a drug lord is the only way to be wealthy - besides being a (corrupt) politician, that is. FARC leftovers think that way and that's why they won't stop doing crime.

The criminal organizations that came from Venezuela ("Tren de Aragua", "Los Satanás") aren't helping either.




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