Talk:History of Colombia

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I see a great deal of this is from a memorandum from the American Overseas Private Investment Corporation. There's some NPOV - the history of Colombia through the eyes of wealthy Americans looking to take profits out of Colombia. At least it makes it inherent how obvious the bias is. -- JohnWoolsey 14:38, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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So the original source might be subject to NPOV warning, in your opinion...but the content of the article itself seems dettached (sp?) enough for the purposes of Wikipedia, it provides a general view without making judgements of "good" or "evil" regarding such a complex situation.

Thus, care to provide any specific points of discussion other than simply pointing out that it's "obviously" biased? Newsflash: It's not as "obvious" as you may think, from "up there", wherever you are.

Perhaps the source disagrees with your own (political?) POV, but then that's another matter. Surely you can be more specific than that.

Where is the biased POV in this article?

There don't appear to be any specific objections in talk. Can someone please let us know where the problem paragraphs are? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:51, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Precolombian

I'm changing what is, I hope, a typo: "precolombian" isn't a word. The word is "precolumbian", as in, before Columbus.

Why is there no information on this time period?????

--Precolombian references before it was recognized as a country, not before Columbus

Civil War

Valdalism, so it seems, was at the top of the article (stating Colombia, see civil war. I sincerely doubt that all Colombian history can be summed up by Civil War.

Not really...but curiously enough, there's an unofficial "school of thought" that mostly subscribes to that belief or a variation of it. I don't share it, particularly, because there are certainly periods of peace and relative tranquility in the history of Colombia that in some ways have had more longterm effects than the more chaotic ones. That's my personal interpretation though, but I do recognized that war is definitely something that has to be heavily addressed as a part of modern Colombian history.Juancarlos2004 03:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

La Violencia

The Spanish Wikipedia has an article on La Violencia. There seems to be very little information about this important period in Cololombian history in the English wikipedia. Would it be best to start a new English article on La Violencia or integrate the information into this general history article? I suppose it could go in a new subsection between "The Republic" and "National Front." mennonot 16:25, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Uribe and the AUC

"He immediately began taking action to crush the FARC, ELN, and AUC, including the employment of citizen informants to help the police and armed forces track down suspected members in all three armed groups."

Is this really a completly true statement. Uribe has really showed no signs of crushing the AUC. The FARC and ELN yes. Perhaps some minor skirmishes but any major operations like they have against the FARC. The page should also include the so-ceasefire and peace process with the AUC.

shut up bum its not true —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.109.46.19 (talk) 15:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Summary Reads like a Political Essay, Not a Summary

The summary at the top of the page is interesting but is too long and goes into too much detail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.35.48 (talk) 17:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Introduction

The summary at the top of the page seems to be a complete cut and paste from this site: http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-2981.html I suggest change. 98.111.78.51 (talk) 05:18, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Which in turn derives from the US Library of Congress. An interesting analysis, but otherwise so ridiculously opinionated nobody in his/her right mind ough to put in an encyclopedia. 81.241.37.220 (talk) 03:08, 12 February 2010 (UTC)