Can we identify with Algeria's conflicts?

Referring to the book "Soccer War", by Ryszard Kapuscinski, I can see the harsh reality in Algeria. Poverty is a great deal, and it's a clear result of social and political problems. The war in Algeria, that lasted seven and a half years , left uncurable wounds and it's reflected even today.

The situation between social classes is very clear, and I can say that we, colombians, can identify with it too. Colombia's social classes are very unbalanced, by this, I mean that the low class is ridiculously big, whether the middle class isn't. It would be great if the middle class had the majority of the population, our security would increase substantially. We, as a high class in a third world country, are more than ignorant when we talk about reality. We are aware that poverty exists, but as we've always said, we live in a bubble. In Algeria, the same thing happens: "It is striking...that these people are generally strangers to Algeria", (Kapuscinski, pg. 101). It would be nice if a country could unite, no matter what race, ethnic group or class.

Comparing Colombia to Algeria in another aspect, the displacement of people due to war is absurd. I read that "three million Algerians were driven from their villages and confined to reservations or resettled in the isolated regions", (Kapuscinski, pg. 101). Here, hundreds of people are taken out of their lands and forced to go to the big cities, where it's very hard for families to survive. War causes extensive losses, and an entire country can desintegrate because of it.