Colombia

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: A+, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Behavioural Sciences- Criminology Unit), course: Terrorism and Political Violence, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to determine whether Colombia can be considered a criminal state given its current political systems and state of the economy. Organized criminal units and th coherent links to corruption within this state has been examined and comparisons were made to Russia as a criminal state.