This class started with a little presentation on Columbia's cocaine war by Gustavio. He had watched a CNN video on that subject, which he found was accurate and complied to the Columbian news. The video explained the situation in Columbia : before the government got really involved in solving that problem, there was a huge trafic of cocaine from Columbia to the USA and EU. Drug dealers got very rich and powerful, but the narcotrafic slowed down after the state invested to implement new and efficient measures. Nowadays, cocaine implies less profit and exportation decreases. The report then focused on a particular area : Medellin's suburbs, the second biggest city suburb in Columbia where gangs of drug dealers and/or thieves have the power. There is a war within gangs who want to control the region, causing 15 deaths per day in those suburbs!
As Gustavio is from Columbia, he is in a good position to be critical. He found that the video was accurate but warned us not to generalize. He reminded us that Medellin was a singular example and that a minority of the population faces that kind of problems. He himself was never related nor aware of drug war activities in his neighborhood when he lived in Columbia. As a comparison, Clichy-sous-Bois doesn't represent France, and a single district of Beirut doesn't represent Lebanon.
During the second half of the period, we studied an article from The Economist : The internet is killing newspaper and giving birth to a new sort of news business. The title says a lot in itself! Newspaper companies are having a hard time, people rely more and more on the Internet where they get the news for free. So the problem is obviously a money problem. Will newspapers eventually disappear? Will people accept to pay the access to newspaper websites?
As Gustavio is from Columbia, he is in a good position to be critical. He found that the video was accurate but warned us not to generalize. He reminded us that Medellin was a singular example and that a minority of the population faces that kind of problems. He himself was never related nor aware of drug war activities in his neighborhood when he lived in Columbia. As a comparison, Clichy-sous-Bois doesn't represent France, and a single district of Beirut doesn't represent Lebanon.
During the second half of the period, we studied an article from The Economist : The internet is killing newspaper and giving birth to a new sort of news business. The title says a lot in itself! Newspaper companies are having a hard time, people rely more and more on the Internet where they get the news for free. So the problem is obviously a money problem. Will newspapers eventually disappear? Will people accept to pay the access to newspaper websites?
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