Re: Cuba isn't so great under Castro


"tony fernandez" <onio44@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Keep dreaming KRP Columbia possessed one of the best real estate in the
hemisphere
( Panama) to say they were broke is really stupid.

They were BROKE! And nobody but the US wanted that real estate much less
had the ability to do anything with it.

The Columbian had build great castles since the 16 century (
Barranquilla) Columbia is
rich in natural resources ( gold, diamonds, etc. The Canal was already
half built before the U.S. stole it.

Horse ***. The SPANISH built the castles. The canal was not half built
or 10% built or even 1% built. You make up history wholesale Tony.
Whatever gold there had been in Colombia was long gone thanks to the
Spanish. I find NO evidence that there were ever any DIAMONDS in Colombia.
However RECENTLY discovered OIL will make Colombia rich. UNLESS Hugo Chavez
steals it. e already has Army units in Columbia aiding FARC. There ARE
however EMERALDS that were discovered in 1969. <YAWN> You are so full of
*** Tony.. Why do you make such easily disproven crap up?


Venezuela and Quito (today's Ecuador) in 1830. At this time, the so-called
"Department of Cundinamarca" adopted then the name "Nueva Granada", which it
kept until 1856 when it became the "Confederación Granadina" (Grenadine
Confederation). In 1863 the "United States of Colombia" was created, lasting
until 1886, when the country finally became known as the Republic of
Colombia. Internal divisions remained, occasionally igniting very bloody
civil wars and, eventually, contributing to setting the stage for the
U.S.-sponsored secession of Panama in 1903. Soon after, the country achieved
a relative degree of political stability, which was interrupted by a bloody
conflict that took place between the late 1940s and the early 1950s, known
as La Violencia ("The Violence"). Its cause was mainly due to mounting
tensions between partisan groups, reignited by the murder of Jorge Eliécer
Gaitán on April 9, 1948, an event later known as the Bogotazo, and it
claimed the lives of at least 180,000 Colombians.



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