Ap Biology Lab 5 Cell Respiration Carolina

[Richard]

few days ago I was fortunate to meet a very special, special because of its history, as distant from the lives of many fortunate as us (Thankfully), but real as life itself. Everything happens
fourteen years ago in a South American country today, despite the campaigns and remedial measures within the country and the United States remains the largest producer of drugs in the world (70% of cocaine, a lot) .
We're talking about Colombia.
For those who do not know the situation in this country, Colombia was considered already in the sixties the world leader in production and processing of a diverse lineup of illegal substances, which marked the daily life of an unstable society succumbed to the drugs, crime and inadequate enforcement action against this situation, which worsened as the years passed.
Colombia was not (and is) a place we could call "safe" or less.
Gradually, demand was increasing, and so we come to the eighties. During these years, illegal drug cartels formed, four to be exact: the Medellin cartel, the Cali cartel, the Norte del Valle cartel and the cartel of the Coast.

Through these criminal groups, were organized and expanded to act against the state, as opposed to extradition measures U.S. AND the same civilian population did not care who it was and did not care how. Many people

were killed as a result of this reality, and I knew Richard so real you have deserved write something, tell their story, but never going to read it, and probably never see him again.

For him, it all happened fourteen years ago. Richard lived with his family in Colombia and was a dedicated journalist to write criticisms of the Drug Cartel Medillín, whose boss was Pablo Escobar. A boss who, with the whole issue of drug trafficking, came to accumulate a fortune of over three billion dollars and be the seventh richest man in the world. Incredible, right?

Because of this, good old Richard and his family were threatened constantly, so that the Government was forced to put police protection. So all I do not know how would such protection, but it did not stop was kidnapped twice. The first time at the hands of the guerrillas for ten days, but they released him because all I wanted was to move a message to the government to negotiate, but the second kidnapping and lasted two months and was led by Pablo Escobar himself noted previously. He managed to escape, but which fellow journalist was murdered in captivity.

really looks like a movie, like many of the things I found in the U.S., but it is much less.

Following the kidnappings, such was the level of corruption that had the country, the same bodyguard, they protected him, one day came to fetch her home. Richard, on that day he left home to go to work as routinely done, and realized that his bodyguard had not come to fetch him. She saw armed individios approached to him. Because he threw himself into his portal "only" shot in the leg, and two in the groin. Turns out that was witnessed by his son, who by then had four years and recounted how on today was remembering that moment. A few

hours of such shootings occur, the Government is out of the country to him, his wife and two young children it took place to avoid another similar incident. They had to emigrate from their country to safeguard their own lives, leaving the rest of his family there. The Colombian government given the choice between the Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.S.. Finally it was the North American country the election, arguing that because of proximity and culture, since it must be remembered that in the U.S. a large proportion of the population is Latin American.

Then the U.S. government welcomed him and put him in a protection program officer (they fit the name, they offered housing, jobs and scholarships for the study of children, which today still maintain). Richard has twelve brothers, but could never return home to see them, and says that if the political situation does not change, never will.

is incredibly sad story how are you, but it's just one of many, and he felt fortunate to have the life you have after seeing how his fellow journalists were abducted as he, and many of them murdered .

already said Gabriel García Márquez in "News of a Kidnapping", a book that if you have not read and you are interested in the subject recommend that you read. It you will meet Richard, the man that I have been talking. It is not his real name, not even the name you said to me is the real him, but the U.S. gave him to change his identity. So did Garcia Marquez, who chose that name for his work after having interviewed on this episode of his life, like other survivors comañeros.

So to me, Richard is a symbolic name that represents this friend who behaved extremely well with me, but in turn includes all the people who were in the same situation or have to live away from their country and their X people on the ground whatsoever.

honor for them in this post I'm not far less García Márquez, but they deserve not to fall into oblivion.

A Salute =)