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Este libro es un esfuerzo por organizar y articular las investigaciones más importantes sobre el desarrollo regional de la violencia de los cincuenta en Colombia, desde la relación entre violencia y Estado. A partir de un estudio detallado de las distintas publicaciones sobre violencia regional y de la revisión del proceso de formación del Estado desde la sociología histórica, la autora muestra que, con base en ciertas condiciones, la violencia política opera como un mecanismo de integración territorial y de articulación de nuevos grupos sociales. El trabajo examina algunos de los...

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

"Insightful study of Colombia's drug problem. First chapters challenge some accepted ideas concerning the narcotics issue and its criminal, security, diplomatic, and military implications. Later chapters address its international aspects, focusing particularly on the role played by the US. Concludes that Colombian-US relations will become even more 'complex, difficult and tense' as a result of tough US policies and the negative impact of Colombia's political weakness and disarray on the anti-drug effort"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"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...