Bogotá MMX, 200 años después

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

"Polemical historical study of the origins of Panamanian secession and the role played by Colombian domestic actors and the US government. The evolution of Colombian-Panamanian relations since 1903, with particular reference to the issue of the Panama Canal is also analyzed. Denounces support of Panamanian separatism and its appropriation of the Canal Zone but also criticizes the behavior of Colombian parties and administrations for generating Panamanian resentment, opening doors to foreign intervention and failing to pay adequate attention to the inter-oceanic canal issue. Interesting...

A novelized account of the assassination of revolutionary leader Jacobo Prías Alape in 1960, considered a turning point in the years just preceding the emergence of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia.

La historia del narcotráfico en Colombia parte en 1960 y tiene múltiples causas. Entre ellas la pobreza que abarca al 70% de la población, las dificultades financieras a que son sometidos los hombres de empresa acosados por la corrupción de una clase política inepta e inmoral que se lucra con el delito que resuelve todos los dilemas de dinero. Camino Norte al Infierno, es la novela que relata esos acontecimientos en los que la ficción termina por convertirse en la dura realidad imposible de ocultar. La obra descubre las razones por las cuales injustamente toda Colombia se encuentra al...