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Despite all the conflict, Colombia remains unique from other Latin American countries in that is has had one of the most stable governments of all. While coups and dictatorships arose, they were rare, short-lived and moderate. Also, while economic growth was never extraordinary, it always managed to miss the extreme ups and downs of it’s neighbors, and remain fairly positive. Colombia has always had and continues to have the strongest Catholic church presence, and Bogotá developed the nickname of “The Athens of South America” due to its academics.<br> | Despite all the conflict, Colombia remains unique from other Latin American countries in that is has had one of the most stable governments of all. While coups and dictatorships arose, they were rare, short-lived and moderate. Also, while economic growth was never extraordinary, it always managed to miss the extreme ups and downs of it’s neighbors, and remain fairly positive. Colombia has always had and continues to have the strongest Catholic church presence, and Bogotá developed the nickname of “The Athens of South America” due to its academics.<br> | ||
All of the internal conflicts in Colombia affected the people and records. | All of the internal conflicts in Colombia affected the people and records. Churches and records have been destroyed, and population displacement occurred. Preservation of documents in a national archives has only began since 1991, as government attention and resources are and were absorbed by the conflicts. | ||
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia] | ||
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