Política monetaria, 1947-1958

Estudiante de ingeniería - Escuela militar - Estados Unidos - De vuelta ala ejército - Cursos y escuelas - Aeronáutica - La violencia - La casa liberal - Ministro de correos y telégrafos - Laureano vs. Rojas - El segundo libertador - Prohibido criticar al Jefe Supremo - Relatos de un náufrago - Un congreso de bolsillo - La cruzada por las armas - También el ejército - El nuevo júbilo.

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: La encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942: perspectivas de historia política y cultural - Sociedades campesinas y transición social en Colombia hacia 1940: una lectura no folclórica de la encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942.

"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.