Oposición y violencia en Colombia

"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...

"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...

La violencia, contexto histórico - Del sectarismo político - El bogotazo - El período del 48 al 53, gobierno de Ospina Pérez y Laureano Gómez - Dictadura militar - El Frente Nacional - El objeto violencia en Estaba la pájara pinta sentado en el verde limón - Ana, de la incomplacencia al desencanto.

"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.