Oposición y violencia en Colombia

"Este libro es un testimonio de las mas representativas expresiones vivas del folclor colombiano, y dibuja un atractivo mosaico de sus diversas culturas regionales. Las significativas imagenes del fotografo ingles Jeremy Horner testimonian la fiesta, el carnaval, la feria, la mojiganga. Con el espiritu ritual y festivo propio de la celebracion, se divulga aqui una tradicion que se expresa al son de la musica, los desfiles, los disfraces, las mascaras, las comparsas y los bailes populares. Quien recorra este libro no solo percibira la alegria de sus protagonistas sino comprendera tambien como...

"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...

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.

Introducción.- Antecedentes del conflicto colombiano.- Marco de análisis.- Las partes contendientes.- Estrategias.- Derechos humanos y desplazamiento interno en Colombia.- Bibliografía.