Talk:Colombia

Introduction Unclear in Certain Parts

Specifically, "Colombia is a standing middle power with the third largest economy in South America and a major impact of poverty."

What does that mean "Columbia is a major impact of poverty"? I think someone edited an original sentence poorly, or someone translated a document poorly...--24.139.46.213 (talk) 00:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

History Unclear in Certain Parts

Specifically, "President Andrés Pastrana and the FARC attempted to negotiate a solution to the conflict between 1998 and 2002 in which the government, more or less like Pakistan negotiations with the Taliban, believed the state could not fight forever and agreed to handle huge quantity of land in return for peace."

This comparison is absurd and lacks any sort of academia. The similarities and differences between the two might merit an essay or research paper, but have no place in an article solely about Colombia.--24.139.46.213 (talk) 00:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Government Unclear in Certain Parts

Specifically, "In accordance with the principle of separation of powers, government is divided into three branches: the control institutions (the offices of the Inspector General of Colombia and the Comptroller General of Colombia) and electoral institutions."

Apparently, the government is divided into three branches...but the article lists only two. I assume the third is the Executive Branch, but I might be wrong.

Specifically, "Colombia was one of the 12 countries that joined the UNASUR when it was created."

...and what does UNASAR stand for?--24.139.46.213 (talk) 01:10, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Colombian Culture

I think this section should be expanded, even corrected if possible. I don't think famous pop singers, or sportsmen reflect at all what colombian culture is about. I think there's a very rich variety of cultural values to be considered. I don't know why there's not a bigger emphasis on afro influence and typical dances. Or the ancient culture of indigenous communities around the coast and the amazon. There's also a history of political disputes over the past 100 years that had set the country's current cultural situation. It shouldn't be ignored, as it is in our blood, no matter if we want it or not. Please don't fill this section with Colombian media propaganda. There are some many more cultural traits about Colombia to be put here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.123.106 (talk) 23:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

The external link for 'Eyes On Colombia' which I added was removed but there was no reason given, aside from Wikipedia's auto-message. If an external site provides more cultural knowledge than any other external site currently listed, it should be included (if the purpose of the page on Colombia is to teach what Colombia is and is not). Removing relevant links makes this page less useful, not more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.88.62 (talk) 05:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Should Education be under Culture rather than Demographics? Sarcelles (talk) 13:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Size

In the article, it stated that Colombia is the world's third-largest Spanish speaking country, below Mexico and Spain. Later in the article, it stated that it was the fourth-largest country in South America. That is confusing. If only one South American country (Brazil) does not speak Spanish, then that would mean that there were two bigger Spanish speaking countries in South America, along with Mexico and Spain. Wouldn't that make Colombia the world's fifth-largest Spanish speaking country, or is "third-largest" referring to population?--Whatinthewampa (talk) 13:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

That's odd, I think that "world's third-largest Spanish speaking country" refers to population rank in Spanish speaking countries and "fourth-largest country in South America" refers to the country size. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 14:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Not odd at all, and your interpretation is correct. Argentina and Peru are both larger than Colombia in area, but Colombia has a larger population (45 million vs. 40 million for Argentina, 29 million for Peru). 75.64.204.13 (talk) 04:32, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

SVG images

Hi, if any of you know of SVG images needed in any of the articles related to Colombia, please respond here with a link to such article. I will be creating SVG files in articles that really need such images. Thanks for suggestions. You can also leave me a message in my userpage. Gracias parceros. --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 06:27, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi. This article states that Colombia is the third largest speaking Spanish country in the world behind Mexico and the United States. What about Spain?

In the government section, someone was playing around. It says ' is located next to Nigeria and they grow moon rocks' - notalwayslogicalNotalwayslogical (talk) 21:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Picture Cluttering

Hey guys, please don't add too many pictures. I have rearranged the images in a way that the text can flow easily. If you are going to add more images please do it on the gallery sections or try to add them to the main articles. Thanks. --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 09:24, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Colombia is not the second largest Spanish-speaking nation at the moment

The population of Spain is 46,745,807, and all the population speaks Spanish as all the people who speak Basque, Catalan/Valencian, Galician, etc. are bilingual with Spanish. At the moment the population of Colombia is 42~44 millions. So Colombia is the third largest Spanish-speaking country. However I don't know the total population who speak Spanish in the US, being bilingual with English. Even the US might be the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, though there Spanish is not an official language. 86.177.203.160 (talk) 19:55, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

colombia

in colombia there families stick together and their main problem today is there drug and alcohol use in this country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.44.106.16 (talk) 02:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)