Is Colombia a violent country?
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“In Colombia, violence doesn’t disappear-it transforms,” the director of the National Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences said recently1 He noted the long history of political violence that has persisted in Colombia despite several peace processes, social violence in the form of children dying from malnutrition, child abuse cases numbering more than 18,000 by October of last year, acid attacks on women, etc. The recent cruel killing of an eight-year-old girl in Bogota is yet another manifestation of the multifaceted violence that exists in Colombia, and it has raised the question of whether Colombia is truly an exceptionally violent country.
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