Trabajadores, villanos y amantes

La paz incicia el siglo: los tratados de Wisconsin, Neerlandia y Chinácota - Fronteras de la guerra y la paz, 1932 - La paz frustrada, 1953 - Paz y acuerdos políticos, 1956-1957 - El acuerdo de la Uribe, 1984 - La paz de finales del siglo XX: avances y retrocesos, 1990 - La paz en el siglo XX - ¿La paz tiene perspectivas?

Two exhibitions that propose a dialogue from diverse perspectives around art, archaeology and the human body. The exhibition "Amerindian Bodies: Art and culture of the corporal modifications" curated by archaeologist Uribe explores the cultural, social and symbolic richness of the corporal interventions amongst the Pre-Columbian societies of Colombia. The interventions in skin, muscles, bone, hair, denture and nails, far from being superfluous, are vital in the construction of the social identity of the people. The exhibition follows the beauty ideals, religious rituals, economic activities,...

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

El autor muestra en detalle como la cultura politica de los anos cuarenta hunde sus raices en un horizonte imaginario tradicional, compartido de igual modo por liberales y conservadores. Unos y otros recurren a conceptos modernos que van, sin embargo, inseparablemente unidos a motivaciones y sentimientos ancestrales. Democracia y pueblo, por ejemplo son invocados para estimular pasiones que arraigan en un pasado inmemorial. El autor toma distancia tambien de la lectura liberalizante de la historiografia dominante, de inspiracion liberal, que opone un partido conservador tradicionalista,...