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Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered "primitive" by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history, from La Violencia—the civil war that rocked the country from 1948 to 1958—and the presidency of Rojas Pinilla, who helped pacify the Llanos in the late 1950s, to the National Front agreement between the Conservative and Liberal parties during the 1960s, its aftermath, and the rapid changes during the last half of the twentieth century. Using archival research and her own first-hand experiences, Jane Rausch examines the Colombian government's Llanos policies and the political, economic, and social changes they have brought about. This book brings to a strong conclusion Rausch's large-scale historical survey of a region: one sharing much in common with other South American frontiers and critical to Colombia's present and future.
From Frontier Town to Metropolis
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogot , the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years--even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments in Bogot regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of Promise," underestimating the geographic and ...
The world of El Cid
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Fall of Dumar Aljure, a Colombian Guerrilla and Bandit
An account of the career of Dumar Aljure, a bandit-guerrilla, political party boss, and chief of a 60,000-hectare domain in Colombia. Aljure was killed in a battle with the Colombian army and police on April 5, 1968. Despite notoriously illegal activity, he had survived previous government campaigns against guerrillas without harm. His immunity was owed partly to his local political and economic power, but depended most on relationships with Liberal Party elite in Bogota. Payoffs for his delivery of local votes and other political services may have included intercession by respectable civil friends to prevent the Army from pursuing Aljure in his own territory. Before Aljure could be destroyed, it was necessary to break or override these links with legitimate politicians. This may have resulted from (1) revenge by a powerful politician from whom Aljure had withdrawn support, or (2) the Army's intolerance of civil restrictions on its operations. So long as legitimate authority finds links with men like Aljure profitable or necessary, such bandit-guerrillas will survive. (Author).
The Bullion Trail
The Cupola (Mafia High Commission) sanctions the execution of a disgraced Capo. He becomes aware of his fate and fears his days are numbered. In order to secure a financial future for himself he plans a bullion heist. It would be suicide to stay, so he decides to flee Italy and settle in Argentina. By various means the serial numbers of the bank vault are obtained. More than thirty million dollars worth of Bullion are stolen from the Italian Reserve bank in Milan. The Bullion is hidden away in readiness for its transfer out of the country, to be sold abroad. Without the Capos famiglia the operation to steal, hide and transport the bullion would have been impossible. Coercion, persuasion, fam...
Atti e memorie
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Un aspecto de la violencia
A comienzos de la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, la vida socio-política de Colombia estaba agitada, porque coincidían en el panorama el reciente acuerdo del Frente Nacional celebrado entre los dos partidos tradicionales para alternarse el poder durante 16 años continuos entre 1958 y 1974, como mecanismo de proyección gubernamental, luego de que la junta militar retornara el poder político central, al estamento civil, como corolario del gobierno militar del general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla; el inusitado crecimiento del Partido Comunista y sus guerrillas terroristas, los rezagos de la violencia entre liberales y conservadores en las zonas rurales; las ambiciones egocéntricas de ...
