Characterizing and explaining wartime displacement -- The legacy of displacement during La Violencia and the origins of the contemporary war in Colombia -- The contemporary civil war in Colombia, 1986-2012 -- Democratic reforms and the emergence of political cleansing in Colombi…
This is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country's political conflicts…
"Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In this book, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of th…
"Colombia is easily the most confounding country in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the most long-standing in the hemisphere, with only eleven years of military rule otherwise marring its 208 years of independence. With Latin America's third-largest population an…
Colombian varieties of Spanish
by Orozco, Rafael, File-Muriel, Richard J.
fromLingüística Iberoamericana
"Drugs, violence, mafias, death squads, guerrilla armies, authoritarianism, corruption, crisis, death. These are the images conjured up when I tell people about my research on labor regime dynamics in rural Colombia. Sensationalized in popular films and mass media, Colombian soc…
