COLOMBIA: 2,000 Troops On Patrol In Medellin.

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“Without a doubt, 2009 was a black year for Medellin. We acknowledge it. Murders increased a lot for reasons that I don’t even want to go into because they could seem like excuses and here there are no excuses. We accept that we had a difficult year there,”Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said after acknowledging that 2,000 soldiers had been sent to patrol neighborhoods there.