...the world top five countries for "Internally Displaced People" (IDP) according to the United Nations UNHCR.
Colombia wins! Beats the world! Numero uno! Yes indeed, three million Colombians have been forced to abandon their homelands and move against their will to other parts of the country, more than any other place in the whole, wide world. What makes you think there's any political risk there nowadays, anyhow? Didn't they tell us that Plan Colombia is working and all that? I mean, it's only three million fucked up lives we're talking about here....not as if it's important or anything.To give you an idea of how Colombia stacks up against the rest of the Americas, this neat map got stolen from the UNHCR website by me.
Oh...have I mentioned the 374,000 foreign Colombian refugees, forced to leave their country by the ongoing war and a hostile government? 36% of those (135,000) are in Ecuador, the vast majority (105,000) as illegals.