Colombia: The Important Model for the Political Decentralization in Latin America

Authors

  • Chaowarit Chaowsangrat Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin

Keywords:

Decentralization, Colombia, Latin America

Abstract

          Colombia ranks as the third most populous Latin American country next to Brazil and Mexico and the fourth-largest Latin American economy next to Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The country has been struggling with economic uncertainty ever since El Libertador, Simón Bolívar, in 1810, entered upon a revolutionary war, declaring independence from the Spanish Empire. (Earle, 2000, 25)[1]. However, Colombia recently succeed in the political decentralization than reduced the violence in the country. Colombia’s democratization based on a ‘power-sharing’ approach to reconcile political organizations and groups to participate in formal politics as conflict resolutions.

 

 

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Published

2022-04-25

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Chaowsangrat , C. . (2022). Colombia: The Important Model for the Political Decentralization in Latin America . Journal for Developing the Social and Community, 9(1), 261–274. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/rdirmu/article/view/256228

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