>>213152643I don't know about your case, but they definitely destroyed our main historical industries. The coffee industry started in our department and they delayed all the effort to the current Eje Cafetero and left our coffee industry to rot away. Our railway system connecting with venezuela, one of the first in the entire country, was also left to die. They either didn't give a shit about the illegal armed groups entering here or actively helped them, and a lot of displaced populations in the nearer zones came to here, who developed informal settlements because regional powers couldn't handle all of it.
Since the 60s it is just a generic commerce shithole full of ambulant vendors and gasoline smugglers, devoid of any of the culture and development brought by original merchants from europe and asia