Evil Hour in ColombiaColombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work, Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. He shows how patterns of political conflict after 1848, and especially after 1948, explain the war currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. Evil Hour in Colombia also traces how Colombia's coffee capitalism gave way to the cattle and cocaine republic of the 1980s, and how land, wealth and power have been steadily accumulated by the light-skinned top of the social pyramid through a brutal combination of terror, expropriation and economic depression. |
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RadicalPopular Republicanism 184880 | 15 |
From Reaction to Rebellion 18801930 | 23 |
The Liberal Pause 193046 | 31 |
La Violencia 194657 | 39 |
The National Front Political Lockout 195782 | 51 |
Negotiating the Dirty War 198290 | 67 |
Fragmented Peace Parcellized Sovereignty 199098 | 79 |
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Page 12 - Kalahandi in the First Half of the Twentieth Century By the end of the nineteenth century itself, a brisk trade in (selling) cloth and (purchasing) grain had developed.