Organización del territorio

"El libro ... es el resultado del concurso Historias de Vida que el Fondo Editorial para la Paz, de la Fundación Progresar, convoca anualmente en su interés por rescatar la memoria histórica de las últimas cuatro décadas ... los textos son ante todo una aproximación a la cotidianidad de la izquierda armada y a la vez a unos elementos culturales que se han forjado en varias décadas de guerra insurgente en nuestro país"--P. [7]-8.

Comentarios a los distintos aspectos del plan: politica agraria, politica industrial y el problema de vivienda.

"Magnificent edition of articles translated into Spanish, by the late Berkeley geographer, James J. Parsons (1914-97). Approximately half are studies on Colombia. Parsons was known for his masterful ability to understand, from direct observation, the interraction between nature and culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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.