Independent Variable: the effect on politics, the economy and society.

ings as the sell off state companies to make their economy accessible to foreign investment. In fact even with foreign investment there is a 40% unemployment rate. Also the paper will explore the fact that there is no clear distinction anymore between legal and illegal businesses. Multi-billion-dollar drug empires have not only bought into Colombia's legal economy, but have raised the stakes a hundredfold in corrupting politicians and in backing guerilla and paramilitary groups.

In making a connection to the text involved in the class, the paper will investigate connections to the Peeler text by examining his definition of democracy, and his models of civil liberties and civil rights (a minimum that citizens should participate). It will also ex

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, Colombia Colombia, House Representatives, Democratic Model, Personal Environment, Independent Variable, Javier Giraldo, Variable Government, political system, foreign investment, elite's control, development modernization, central government, four-year term,
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)