Construyendo lo global

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.

"Very thoughtful study of a problem of the utmost importance for Colombia. The author analyzes the country's economic and political development since the post-war to better understand the profound changes it has undergone; he then proceeds to survey the known facts about the illegal drug industry. Within this context, Thoumi attempts to determine why Colombia developed, since the 1970s, a marijuana, and subsequently a cocaine, industry. Further, he evaluates the effects of the drug trade on the Colombian economy and social order. The final analysis suggests that Colombia's chances of reducing ...

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...

Por la libertad de prensa - La Corte Suprema y la guarda de la Constitución - Orígenes de la política del Frente Nacional - La sociedad económica de amigos del país - El liberalismo y el Frente Nacional - La Asamblea Constituyente de la dictadura, su invalidez y la nulidad de los actos por ella cumplidos - La política administrativa del Frente Nacional - La restauración institucional - Análisis de una política - Política del desarrollo económico y el bienestar social - Descentralismo y desarrollo regional - Un criterio sobre el funcionamiento del Frente Nacional - La reforma social ...