Las piezas del rompecabezas

"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.

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.

A lengthy background essay on a 2007 World Court decision adjudicating a territorial dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia, as well as two 1898 documents related to the historic background of the case.

Explica en la primera parte conceptos de ideologia, politica, democracia, guerra, guerra irregular, subversion y en la segunda parte la guerra irregular subversiva en la democracia colombiana, enmarcados en los movimientos de izquierda, las autodefensas y los narcotraficantes.