Historia constitucional de Colombia, 1510-1978

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

De la planeación al revés a la planeación al derecho Movilizaciones ciudadanas, descentralización y participación - La participación explicada a los niños - La constitución social del Sistema Nacional de Planeación - Pobreza, desarrollo y planeación participativa - Ideas básicas para ejercer derechos - Condiciones y fases de la planeación participativa - Gobernabilidad y planeación participativa - Trochas, programas de gobierno, planes y consejos - Hacia una ética de lo público - Procedimientos para la integración o reestructuración de los Consejos Territoriales de...

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.