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Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?
La vida de Aroldo Quiroz Monsalvo es un inspirador viaje que comienza en las calles de Valledupar, donde vendía arepas para sobrevivir junto a su familia y nos lleva, por ahora, hasta el logro de convertirse en el presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia. Este abogado, hijo del amor entre un chofer de provincia y una ama de casa, descendiente de esclavos, logró superar incontables dificultades y tropiezos para alcanzar la cima de la justicia en su país. Una historia de determinación, superación y éxito. Gracias a la esperanza, las utopías y las metas, seguimos río arriba, a pesar de la corriente en contra, en busca de mejores días. Aroldo Quiroz Monsalvo
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Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.
Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is ...
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The Dominican Republic has made strides on many socioeconomic fronts over the years. The country has been one of the leading economies in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of GDP growth, reaching upper middle-income status in 2011.