Obra de Francisco Leal Buitrago

"As the Samper government was rocked by allegations of drug-related corruption in the presidential campaign of 1994, Colombia's endemic crisis of governability, violence, and political participation took a dramatic turn for the worse. Moreover, Colombia/US bilateral relations degenerated into mutual accusations and recriminations. In this book, several of Colombia's leading political analysts assess this crisis and its implications for the maintainance of political stability and consolidation of democracy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

La apertura como una relacion con el mercado externo y las variaciones que deben hacerse en cuestiones de politica economica; analiza economia de mercado, tasa de cambio, aranceles, macroeconomia de la apertura y el pacto andino y la apertura.

An anthology of columns published in the newspaper, El Espectador, in December 2006. Illustrated with cartoons of Mico.

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.

Crecimiento, distribución del ingreso y pobreza - El crecimiento económico - Pobreza y desigualdad - La política de población - El rezago de la educación en Colombia - El problema del empleo - El modelo pensional - Los servicios públicos en Colombia - Los desafíos de las finanzas públicas.