Bogotá, nacimiento de una metrópoli

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.

"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...

Este segundo tomo rescata un conjunto de textos relacionados con el origen, consolidación o extinción de diversas poblaciones que conformaron el Partido de Tierradentro, territorio del Caribe colombiano que hoy se conoce como departamento del Atlántico. Los editores –guiados por el maestro Blanco Barros– se dieron a la tarea de corroborar fuentes originales, subsanar omisiones e incluir anexos completos tomados del Archivo General de la Nación, lo que convierte este tomo en fuente de obligada consulta para geógrafos, historiadores, sociólogos y lectores en general interesados en...

Reforma del estado y desarrollo económico y social en Colombia - Economía, conflicto y gobernabilidad en Colombia.