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Colombia is a troubled land in the northwest corner of South America. Notorious for the flourishing cocaine smuggling industry, Colombia has gained a reputation as perhaps the most violent country on earth. Major legal products are oil and coffee.

Ever since independence from Spain in 1821, Colombia has suffered the ill effects of bitter, and often violent, partisan politics. In the 1980's Colombia's government began efforts to curb the drug trade. The powerful drug cartels violently resisted and initiated a campaign of terror as bombings, assassinations, and kidnaping became common.

Although evangelicals and other religious minorities were long persecuted, Colombia now has religious freedom, and evangelical congregations enjoy spectacular growth.

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