Los embera y los cuna

"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...

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

Decisions of the Colombian Supreme Court and Senate on the constitutionality of state laws and constitutions.

El antagonismo social durante la violencia : la relación antagónica entre liberales y conservadores - Entre el populismo liberal y el fundamentalismo conservador - La cultura política campesina - El bandolerismo durante la violencia - Los perversos "chuladitas"--El problema de la alteridad - Guerra de símbolos y de signos - Bordes imprecisos entre identidades humanas y animales - Las masacres como síntoma social - Definición y estructura ritual de las masacres - Mutilaciones y cortes. Una ruptura real y simbólica del cuerpo - La imagen del cuerpo entre los campesinos - El síntoma en...