En busca de la estabilidad perdida

CONTENIDO: Colombia: constitución y poder a finales del siglo - El poder y las constituyentes en la historia colombiana 1886-1992 - Aproximación a los derechos humanos y su protección en la Nueva Constitución de Colombia - Ecología y constitución política - La organización del Estado en la constitución - Aprender la democracia. El problema de la participación democrática en la defensa de los derechos humanos y la paz - Derecho y neoliberalismo - Colombia: del estado confesional al estado laico - La importancia del pensamiento de Bobbio para la cultura política democrática en...

Recounts incidents throughout Colombia where ordinary people narrowly avoid--or fail to escape--death, from five boys trapped in a cave to a village that declares itself off limits to all parties in the violence that plagues their country.

The old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.