Colombia


 * Capital at Bogota
 * Engaged in internal conflicts involving drug trafficking
 * Along with Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador, it formed the Gran Colombia
 * Successor to New Grenada
 * Panama suceded in 1903
 * The USS Nashville was sent to harass its efforts to stop the Panamanian Revolution
 * Assassination of Jorge Elicer Gaitan began a ten year civil war known as "La Violencia"
 * He was a Liberal Party candidate
 * FARC rebels continue to conduct guerilla warfare here
 * Saw the battles:
 * Vargas Swamp Battle
 * Battle of Boyaca
 * British legion helped
 * Presidents:
 * Jose Maria Campo
 * First president under current constitution
 * Julio Turbay
 * Gustavos Rojas Pinilla led a coup here
 * Rejected the US-proposed Hay-Herran Treaty
 * Quarreled with Peru over Leticia
 * The Thousand Days' War was a civil war here
 * Ended signing a treaty on the American battleship Wisconsin
 * Saw the M-19 movement seize a Dominican embassy before peacefully returning the hostages for $1000000