This succinct overview of the political factors that condition social and economic development in Latin America is the perfect core text in courses on politics, government, social change, and transitions to democracy throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
This succinct overview of the political factors that condition social and economic development in Latin America is the perfect core text in courses on...
This text analyzes the relations between the late 20th century administrations of Virgilio Barco Vargas and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo and the violent leftist faction that controlled many parts of Colombia. It details and compares leader's attempts to suppress the country's subversives peacefully.
This text analyzes the relations between the late 20th century administrations of Virgilio Barco Vargas and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo and the violent lef...
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 shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, conscript soldiers,...
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 sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. Bursts of appalling violence are punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed the uncounted lives of peasants, conscript soldiers, and those who simply got in the way. Kline argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in this...
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. Bursts of appa...
Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America and one of the continent's most populous nations. It has substantial oil reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds, platinum, and coal, along with a significant number of natural resources. Colombia has also been ravaged by a decades-long violent conflict involving outlawed armed groups, drug cartels, and gross violations of human rights. Recently the country has made some progress towards improving security, and President Santos has pledged to continue to improve security by passing laws to strengthen the judicial...
Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America and one of the continent's most populous nations. It has substantial oil reserves and is a maj...
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez (20062010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America s most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier Colombian presidents and yet written as a stand-alone study, Colombia expert Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising successes and setbacks in Uribe s response to this existential threat. In State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 19861994, Kline...
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Alvaro Ur...
