Colombia is a third world country and its evolution is not moving fast. Like all third world countries, Colombia faces many problems like violence, terrorism, poverty, political wars, and many other issues that could be avoided or at least be reduced. This way they won’t set back our development.

The simple solution is investing in education. The problem is that the government doesn’t invest the right amount money or time in education.  They only use 4% of the whole budget in education which is 27,276,000 COP.  Public education in Colombia has never been a priority and is problematic, with many students unable to prepare for their part in society due to a lack of high-quality schools and great curriculum.

To have strong programs students need basic stuff like books, school materials in general and food. Food you ask? In Colombia, they can’t even deliver the quantity of food needed for the kids to be able to perform correctly at school. This happens because there is a lot of corruption in the program. One possible solution could be that each town controls the food and this way the possibilities of corruption would decrease and the quality of the products would increase.

In 2014, Colombia’s president promised to lower the literacy rate to 3.2%, however, the actual rate has only decreased from 5.9% to 5.7%. This leaves Colombia with one of the highest rates of illiteracy in Latin America. One explanation for this is that countries like Argentina and Chile, which have the lowest illiteracy rates, use 6% of their national budgets for education while Colombia only spend 4% of the budget.

Colombia has always been a problematic country and violence has always been a part of the story. Throughout time the violent part of society has always been the young people because instead of being educated they are fighting for their life in the streets. This all happens because the government doesn’t care they just put them in jail for a bit and don’t teach them how to be part of society, its not their fault that’s the only life they know and the country doesn’t help them.

Although some might argue that the government has done a decent job investing in education, but the reality is that our illiteracy rate is still one of the biggest in all Latin America.

Statistics clearly show that Colombia invests way less than other Latin American countries even if education could help the country become one of the most successful countries in the world.