Some numbers

Some numbers on Colombia (from RevistaHekatombe.blogspot.com)

• 2nd highest level of social inequality in the Americas, after Haiti.
• 22 million people living in poverty...close to 50% of the population
  
• 10,000 disappeared persons
• 8 million indigent/homeless
• 62 years of war and social conflict
• Minimum wage is about $50/month
• Only half of the workforce makes the minimum wage.
• Over half of the workforce seeks a living in the underground economy: vending in the street, crime and prostitution.
• 1,800 "falsos positivos" murdered and claimed as FARC combatants by Santos.