As you can see on the map, Colombia has a privileged geographic location. The country has coasts on the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, has a variety of climats and an enormous amount of natural resources that range from very important oil deposits, coa!, nickel, gold and other minerals and precious stones, to a wide variety of land and cattle products, and a population of 28 million inhabitants that comply with the vital imperative of every country of "progress suffering" as it was once said by a humble school teacher who became President of the Republic in 1928, thanks to one of the oldest and most stable democracies in Latin America.