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El posacuerdo en Colombia
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 239

El posacuerdo en Colombia

El presente libro se basa en las presentaciones realizadas en el taller “Repensando los Cercamientos en Colombia desde un Contexto Regional y Global. El papel del Territorio, la Colonialidad y la Temporalidad”, llevado a cabo en la Universidad del Rosario. Los textos enriquecidos por los intercambios y los debates que se dieron durante el mismo, así como por la escritura de cada uno de los capítulos en diálogo con los comentarios y las sugerencias de los editores de este volumen. Los Acuerdos de Paz constituyen un hito que marca un antes y un después, una hendidura en el tiempo histórico de las sociedades. A partir del análisis detenido de casos, actores y procesos específicos y distintivos, los capítulos que integran este libro coinciden en que el tiempo de “posacuerdo” que se abre después de la firma de los acuerdos de paz se sobreimprime a una realidad social, territorial y temporal heterogénea y desigual. Reponer analíticamente el carácter situado y, por lo mismo cambiante, del devenir del posacuerdo constituye uno de los desafíos centrales de este libro.

Exposing the Enemy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 77

Exposing the Enemy

Destroy the devil’s works! As a former high-ranking satanic priest, John Ramirez is well-acquainted with the enemy’s strategies. Now, as a liberated follower of Jesus, Ramirez offers exclusive intelligence on discerning and demolishing satan’s schemes. Today, so many lives are destroyed by addiction, isolation...

Layered Inequalities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 437

Layered Inequalities

In Colombia, since the 1990s, thousands of Afro-descendants have benefited from collective land rights. However, many peasants have been violently displaced in order to introduce industrial crops, while several other groups of peasants resisted these agribusiness land grabs. This book examines the layered inequalities in this process and analyzes the various paradoxes of recent Colombian development policies: the agribusiness expansions through land grabs; the land and labor conflicts that have overlapped in regions with agribusiness; and both the Afro-descendants and mestizos demand for land rights. (Series: Politics, Society and Community in a Globalized World / Politik, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in einer globalisierten Welt - Vol. 16) [Subject: Latin America Studies, Human Rights, Agricultural Studies, Business]

The Divine Boys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Divine Boys

From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege. Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined. Hauntingly true, this daringly told work of fiction explores the tragic dynamic between genders, social classes, and victim and victimizer, and between five men whose intolerable transgressions will shake the conscience of a country.

Unmasking the Devil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Unmasking the Devil

Satanist-Turned-Evangelist Gives You the Inside Strategy to Defeat the Devils Plans! Many people, even Christians, deny the devils power. John Ramirez doesnt have that luxuryhe experienced the prince of darkness up close and personal. In the impoverished streets of the South Bronx, John Ramirez found acceptance from a family of witches and warlocks. These practitioners of dark arts trained him to be a high-ranking satanic priesta story told in his first book, Out of the Devils Cauldron. However, everything changed when he met the living Christ. In Unmasking the Devil, John Ramirez shares an insider view of how satan operates so you can avoid his traps and learn how to: discern between the vo...

A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante

From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.

Leopard in the Sun
  • Language: en

Leopard in the Sun

In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.

Island of the Passion
  • Language: en

Island of the Passion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Trafford

In the late nineteenth century, Mexico and France laid claim to Clipperton Island. In 1908 Mexico places a garrison of men and their families on the island to reinforce their claim. All goes well until 1914 when, because of the revolution that tears Mexico apart, the garrison is no longer supplied. Scurvy claims many of their lives and in a desperate attempt to save those that are left, the Captain tries to row a boat for help. He perishes along with three men he took with him. The lone man, left on the island, goes crazy and declares himself king. For twenty-two months he rapes, tortures and murders some of the women and children of the garrison. Finally, two of the women are successful in killing him. A United States warship, looking for Germans, rescues the survivors and returns them to Mexico and safety.

Newton's Football
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Newton's Football

In the bestselling tradition of Freakonomics and Scorecasting comes a clever and accessible look at the big ideas underlying the science of football. Did you hear the one about the MacArthur genius physicist and the NFL coach? It’s not a joke. It’s actually an innovative way to understand chaos theory, and the remarkable complexity of modern professional football. In Newton’s Football, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Allen St. John and TED Speaker and former Yale professor Ainissa Ramirez explore the unexpected science behind America’s Game. Whether it’s Jerry Rice finding the common ground between quantum physics and the West Coast offense or an Ivy League biologi...

Borrowing Costs and The Role of Multilateral Development Banks: Evidence from Cross-Border Syndicated Bank Lending
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

Borrowing Costs and The Role of Multilateral Development Banks: Evidence from Cross-Border Syndicated Bank Lending

Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results show that MDBs' participation is associated with higher borrowing costs and longer maturities---signaling a greater willingness to finance high risk projects which may not be financed by the private sector---but it is also associated with lower spreads for riskier borrowers. Overall, our findings suggest that MDBs could crowd in private investment in developing countries through risk mitigation.