Colombia is the only country in Latin America where you can attend seminars at world-class universities, learn about mushrooming multinationals, and chat with supremely competent policymakers, all the while knowing that citizens are confronting one another with machetes and bazookas just a few dozen miles away. In this sense, Colombia is two countries, which have been at war with each other for far too long.
在哥伦比亚，你可以在世界级大学参加研讨会研究茁壮成长的跨国公司，与能力卓著的决策者攀谈，与此同时，你又能了解到，在这里，相隔不过数十英里远的公民彼此拔刀相向。这种现象在拉丁美洲独此一家。从这个角度讲，哥伦比亚是两个国家，还进行着旷日持久的交战。