Venezuela is mean and nasty and horrible and in an arms race to destabilize the whole region.
Colombia is nice and kind and soft and gentle, it’s recent problems are now all gone and it’s a perfectly safe and morally upstanding place to invest…for example, landgrabbing for goldmine territory in the middle of the jungle.
But wait! What’s this? Why on earth is Colombia spending more on defence and security in its 2010 budget than it is on education? Click through and allow the always excellent ‘Plan Colombia and Beyond’ to fill you in on the details.