El conflicto 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 ...

La conquista : El oro de Buritaca / Pedro de Espinosa / - La Conquista de Cartagena : los indios con que topamos / Pedro de Heredia / - La conquista : aborígenes y caballos; españoles y niguas / Lucas Fernández de Piedrahíta / - Personajes : el tirano Aguirre, azote de Dios / Fray Alonso de Zamora / - Un mito colonial : la leyenda del venado de oro / Pedro María Ibáñez / - Descubriendo un mundo : se da razón de los animales que se crían en este nuevo reino / Basilio Vicente de Oviedo / - La crónica de un sabio : la costa Pacífica / Francisco José de Caldas / - La reconquista : los ...

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.

"Innovative volume, which begins with precolumbian Muiscas and ends in 1940s, inserts history of chicha drinking within broader legislative and medical history of Colombia. Relationship between hygiene, nation-building, urban expansion, and growth of popular culture is explored within this framework"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.