Colombia - Critical Social Problems Part 2
Living and Working in Colombia
Living and working in Republic Of Republic Of Colombia can have got some advantages despite its well-deserved repute for violence, kidnapping, human rights violations, corruptness and drug trafficking. Here we'll go on to notice briefly on five more than of what I experience are the 20 most critical jobs that maintain Republic Of Colombia in the "Third World".
6. Travel, especially between metropolises at night, can be hazardous.
There's an look in common usage here in Spanish that goes, "No dar papaya". It's not referring to Papaya, the fruit, but rather to not giving chance to law-breakings of chance (or opportunity). That is to say, that many law-breakings aren't planned, they go on because the incorrect people see - and prehend - the chance to "benefit" word form a misadventure. Such tin be the lawsuit when traveling long distances at night. Roads and main roads are poorly policed, if at all, with highwaymen, guerrilla and "Para-Militares", delinquent packs of robbers, thieves, muggers and abductors plying their trade among the unsuspicious travellers unfortunate adequate to acquire caught on board.
7. There is small or no enforcement of laws.
Laws? Oh yes, there are plenty of laws presumably for the protection of all. The job is though, they are typically NOT enforced. From running through reddish traffic lights, driving the incorrect manner on a one-way street to hit-and-run-drivers, people make essentially anything knowing they won't be pursued, investigated, caught or punished for anything. Jails and prison houses are often horrendously over-crowded or controlled by the inmates themselves. Even homicide often acquires a quickie, one-over passing by over-worked, under-staffed police force stations. This consequences in portion to a vigilante-style type of "justice" where common people may take the law into their ain hands. Solutions to unpaid debts, major larcenies or robbery, "deals" gone bad and other consumer-oriented complaints can be to homicide the "offender".
8. Criminals regularly have impunity from prosecution or punishment.
When law-breakers are apprehended for some violation, punishments can take old age to be administered, if at all. Car larceny is "punishable by as small as a few hours or one twenty-four hours in jail. Non-violent crimes frequently transport no jailhouse clip at all with the country's horrendously over-crowded jailhouses and prisons. Some popular penal codification theories non-withstanding, this offerings small inducement to prospective or calling law-breakers.
9. Person rights misdemeanors are rampant.
Crimes and human rights misdemeanors against women, children and minorities are rampant. These most vulnerable groups, when portion of the bottom elements of society, are virtually defenceless before government or any who might wish to work them. There are billions of refugees throughout Colombia, displaced from their places and lands by warfares and violent conflicts, land guess or simply by those whose end is to obtain extended Fields and land from which to operate.
10. The legal system is loop-hole-riddled and corrupt.
Colombia certainly isn't the lone state where those with adequate money can "buy" justness - or deficiency thereof. Legal legal proceeding can take old age to acquire on the docket, then drag on for old age more when they make - all for the right price, of course. Almost everyone desires to be a lawyer. There are so many in fact, that there are more than "lawyers" drive taxis and working other places than there are actually practicing law. Determination a lawyer is easy. Determination a competent 1 though, can be another substance entirely.
In the next, portion 3 of this series, we'll go on with five more than of what I experience are the 20 most critical jobs with Republic Of Colombia that maintain it a "third world" country. Your constructive comments, sentiments and feedback are welcomed. See you then.
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