Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andres Pastrana’s efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war.The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with s
Although less well known than its much-admired counterparts in Peru and Bolivia, highland Ecuadorian weaving is an Andean tradition that has relationships with these more southern areas. A world away
On April 12, 1999, Leszli Kalli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz in Israel, but she never made it. The plane was hijacked by a leftist guerrilla group and forced to land on an abandon
Para los cuarenta y seis ocupantes del avión Fokker 50 de Avianca, que volaba de Bucaramanga a Bogotá, el 12 de abril de 1999 se convirtió en una pesadilla. Guerrilleros encapuchados s
While there has been quite a bit of work analyzing US foreign policy toward Colombia, Welna (a political scientist and president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest) and Gallon (director, Colomb
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia’s “long twentieth century,” from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late
In "Walking Ghosts, " Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary A
Between Resistance and Adaptation explores the Spanish colonization of the Choco, a lowland region of present-day Colombia that was crucial to Spanish interests in Latin America because of its large g
A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.Few topics in the development of humans have prompted as much interest
A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.Few topics in the development of humans have prompted as much interest
Columbian journalist and sociologist Molano has been writing about the social and cultural effects of the violence in his country for 20 years, but little of his work has been accessible in English. I
Nicholas Coghlan arrived in Bogota in 1997. A political officer for the Canadian government, it was his responsibility to report on Colombia's complex civil conflict, lobby the Colombian authorities o
The South American nation of Colombia has seen more than forty years of unrest, conflict, and civil war. It is a country in which social violence and warfare are intricately intertwined. Colombia is a
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequenc
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest
The Center for Preventive Action, a conflict prevention initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, established the Andes 2020 Preventive Action Commission to develop concrete, pragmatic recommend
Contentious Republicans explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia, a country many assume has never had a meaningful democracy of any s
