ABSTRACT
A wildly mountainous land, Colombia had unwillingly sustained a handful of that odd genre of political creature within its rough terrain for some years. One violent new group, “Dignity for Colombia,” which has claimed responsibility for the murders of government officials and for recent high-level kidnappings, is authoritatively believed to be linked to both drugs and guerrillas. The next step, of course, will inevitably be the melting down even further into still more disparate groups at the same time that the old, often democratic institutions of the central society continue to weaken. Typical of this thinking are the words of one of the leaders of an active non-governmental organizations, Jason Clay of the indigenous advocacy group “Rights and Resources.” Perhaps it would be good here to recall that the now-maligned nation-state emerged on the world stage several centuries ago directly out of the horrors of blood group eternally fighting blood group.
