Estudios de derecho constitucional económico

"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...

"El revés de la trama de La Guerra De Los Violines del laureado escritor Fernando Ayala Poveda. La Metanovela bisagra de la Memoria, la Paz y el Postconflicto. Una aventura apasionante a los territorios heridos de Colombia a través de la cartografia de los sueños, las voces, las víctimas y los héroes sin tumba. Un análisis de la cocina literaria e histórica de una novela con 72 versiones iluminada por Historia De Un Deicidio de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre Cien Años De Soledad de García Márquez. Actores de la vida real y personajes de ficción fluyen como la vida misma, tocando las...

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...

"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.