La industria del sexo en Quito

"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.

"Con el propósito de profundizar en el mejor conocimiento de la realidad política nacional la Fundación Friedrich Ebert de Colombia, Fescol, y el Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Iepri, adelantan un taller permanente sobre el desarrollo político del país, con la participación no sólo de los investigadores y analistas de ambas instituciones sino también de los más importantes centros académicos del país, al igual que representantes de todo el espectro político colombiano." Tomado de la presentación.

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.

This catalogue is a tribute, from various points of view, to the set of sculptural pieces in Bogotá, through the selection of a hundred works by restorer and historian Paula Matiz. Her novel proposal moves away from a chronological account to go into the presentation of the works from six themes that cover: the territory, as a geographical, mythological and natural reference; convergences, as situations of meeting of dynamics and cultures since the 17th century; the commemorations, in close affiliation with the independence processes; the purposes, like those ideas of construction of a...