This is a short trailer we shot in Colombia, South America, for an organization called Give Us Names. Give Us Names has one goal and that is the end displacement in Colombia.

Colombia has the 2nd highest number of internally displaced people.
Over 3 million Colombians live as refugees in their own country. That means that the number of internally displaced people in Colombia rivals that of Darfur.

Colombia has the highest number of children serving in armed combat.
There are more than 7,000 child soldiers in Colombia. Thousands more children take to surviving on the streets.

Colombia is home to one of the longest running conflicts in the world.
Colombia has been a conflict zone for over 60 years due to fighting between paramilitary groups, Marxist guerilla revolutionaries, drug cartels, and the Colombian government. The civil war dates back to 1948, when the country became engulfed in a conflict later named La Violencia.

Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world.
Ninety percent of the world’s cocaine comes from the coca fields of Colombia. People in Colombia are being displaced because of the warring among the drug cartels to control valuable farm land. The United States is the largest consumer of cocaine, annually bringing in as much as 300 metric tons.

Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. military spending.
In order to combat drug trafficking and promote stability in the region, Colombia is only behind Israel and Egypt in receiving military aid from the United States. More than 6 billion US tax dollars have gone to Colombia over the last 8 years, and there is skepticism as to whether this aid does more good than harm.

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