Holmes explains that: “The corrosive economic effects of persistently high levels of widespread political violence in Colombia and the specific consequences of cocaine trafficking” (104). The paramilitaries saw what kind of money cocaine was making and decided to join the dark side and began using drug profits to run their military forces. Villoria states that “over the last twenty-five years this widespread violence has ceased to be a rural phenomenon and has taken on many urban characteristics. This is because the war between drug lords, guerrilla and paramilitary groups and high levels of unemployment in the countryside have forced people to abandon rural areas in large numbers” (75). Money makes people irrational because it buys you another day of living in Colombia. The more money you make, the more you and your family can live another day. Villoria states: “The culture of drug trafficking has become widely known, both inside and outside Colombia” (p. 78). Since Colombia is so rich in coca leaves than any other country, Colombia is the main supplier of cocaine to all other countries such as the United States, Bolivia and Peru. 90% of the cocaine produced in America comes from Colombia. That said, Colombia has even gone to extremes by building submarines to transport cocaine from one country to another; Colombia is also a major target of jealousy. Other countries are jealous of Colombia and drug lords from other countries end up starting a war with each other. To keep the coca leaves safe in Bogota, drug cartel members have placed mines all over the mountains to prevent others from taking the coca leaves. Colombia is the country with the highest number of mine victims in the Western Hemisphere. The families living in Bogata at the time ended up being seriously injured by landmines