Estéticas del desarraigo

"Dos voces concurren en este libro. La de todo un pais y su historia, Colombia, y la del mayor exponente de sus letras: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Un texto y un despliegue de fotografias que lo evocan y lo multiplican, aunque no lo explican, tarea imposible ya que el pais sigue siendo un enigma. Es la historia de Colombia magistralmente resumida. Una historia de contradicciones y calamidades, de luchas y crueldades, de osadias, triunfos y verdades. Una historia, no obstante, que mira esperanzada hacia el futuro, no importa cuan oscuro sea el presente. Tal la nota sugerente que le da Garcia...

The old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.

CONTENIDO: De la regeneración al republicanismo - Del republicanismo a la concentración nacional - ¿La violencia o las violencias? - Desorden, paz y guerra - Fraudes, bandoleros y matanzas - El principio del fin - Un demagogo místico? - Oposición sistemática? - Libertad de prensa y oposición - El oro y la escoria - Impunidad y violencia - El hombre tempestad - El monstruo.

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...