Ostentatious wealth in some of the The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian country’s main cities contrasts sharply government and the FARC was the beginning of a with the living conditions of many rural new chapter in the country’s history. [...] Meanwhile, until the recent disarmament of the FARC- EP, state forces continued to battle with the FARC.22 The mestizo population of the lower Putumayo sub- The configuration of the armed conflict and coca region, in which Puerto Asís is situated, was only economy in Puerto Asís has thus been changing since negligible until the mid-20th century. [...] AUC 18 Voices from the borderlands 2020 paramilitary groups, specifically the newly created Santa Marta, Magdalena ‘Liberators of the South’ Front, also took a hold in the area at the end of the 1990s, with the aim of combatting The city of Santa Marta is located on the shores of guerrillas and their alleged supporters, as well as the Caribbean Sea, in northern Colombia. [...] It is the controlling transit zones and the transport rung oldest city in the country (founded in 1525) and the of the cocaine trade, in particular.26 capital of the department of Magdalena. [...] This covers most of the municipal and counter-narcotics) operations in the early- and mid- territory and extends into the neighboring departments 2000s contributed to the expansion of coca cultivation of La Guajira and Cesar.
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