La vida después de la desmovilización

CONTENIDO: Políticas de control en los Estados Unidos: 1850-1980 - Orígenes de la prohibición de las drogas en Estados Unidos - Surgimiento del problema de la droga en las relaciones colombo-estadounidenses en los años 1980 - Virgilio Barco y la cooperación plena con Estados Unidos, 1986-1990 - César Gaviria y el arte político de conciliar.

"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...

Obra sobre politica económica y economia politica en Colombia en el contexto de la historia del país desde los años sesenta.

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...