Unemployment Causes Turns 10% of Youth to Narcotics Trafficking, San Andrés, Colombia

•According to Radio Nacional de Colombia, 10% of the youth turn to the trafficking of narcotics for work for lack of other opportunities.
•The youth of San Andrés, which annually is 900 high school graduates, are seeking work and usually turn to positions such as seasonal hotel workers and motorcycle taxi drivers.
•Deputy Fernando Cañon stresses that the government does not pay San Andrés as much attention because there are no guerillas or bomb threats, and the State forgets that the island is part of Colombia.
•The Colombian government, according to Cañon, has not built public housing which it has in the rest of the country.
•One of the causes of the high unemployment rate is the fact that the population of 100,000 lives within 27 square kilometers. It is one of the 10 most populated places in the world. Read Article