La paz

Introducción : perfil geográfico - La conquista y la época colonial - La historia moderna - Las relaciones diplomáticas - El gobierno y las leyes - Las finanzas y la banca - Los viajes y el transporte - Notas adicionales sobre los ferrocarriles - El comercio - La agricultura - Las minas y los bosques - Las regiones litorales - Las regiones andinas (las cordilleras occidental y central) - Las regiones andinas (la cordillera oriental) - Los llanos y las selvas - La educación y la vida intelectual - Apéndice : Las enmiendas constitucionales de 1910 - Familias lingüísticas aborígenes de...

"Six essays analyze Colombia/US relations in post-Cold War period and challenges facing Colombia as US seeks to impose an ill-conceived anti-narcotics policy. Discusses policy options (including drug legalization), alternatives to extradition, and US certification requirements"--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...

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.