Bloque Calima de las AUC

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.

"Compelling biography by a colleague seeking to dispel myths about the career and death of Torres without idealizing him. First section surveys his life, the second considers his legacy as a Christian, social scientist, and revolutionary. Based on family archives and personal correspondence. Extensive bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"A raíz del violento ataque del ejército colombiano, el 1 de marzo de 2008, a un campamento de las FARC levantado en la zona de Angostura en territorio ecuatoriano, el Laboratorio de Medios de la UDLA, en alianza con la Universidad Javeriana de Colombia, consideró oportuno hacer un análisis de la información que sobre el tema empezaron a proporcionar diarios de los dos países para poner en evidencia las distintas formas de hacer periodismo y los diferentes niveles de calidad periodística. Este libro reúne los trabajos realizados en el marco de esa investigación que analizó las...

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...