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Democracy in Colombia
In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pablo Osterling explores the enigmatic nature of this special, even critical, anchor to the northern tier of South America. In many ways, Colombia is a huge success story: it is one of the oldest, most stable, functioning democracies; the land is blessed with rich and diversified resources and products; and its foreign debt has been kept in check as a consequence of sound economic management.But despite its positive social, cultural, economic, and political indicators, Colombia has been a nation beset by serious problems: overt corruption and unemplo...
Colombia: A Country Study
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
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Organized Crime and Democratic Governability
The United States-Mexico border zone is one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world. NAFTA and rapid industrialization on the Mexican side have brought trade, travel, migration, and consequently, organized crime and corruption to the region on an unprecedented scale. Until recently, crime at the border was viewed as a local law enforcement problem with drug trafficking—a matter of "beefing" up police and "hardening" the border. At the turn of the century, that limited perception has changed. The range of criminal activity at the border now extends beyond drugs to include smuggling of arms, people, vehicles, financial instruments, environmentally dangerous substances, endangered spec...
Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas
The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need to reform government policies and police procedures to combat these threats. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines the problems of security and how they are addressed in Latin America and the United States. Bailey and Dammert detail the wide variation in police tactics and efforts by individual nations to assess their effectiveness and ethical accountability. Policies on this issue can take the form of authoritarianism, which threatens the democratic process itself, or can, instead, work to "demilitarize" the poli...
Die touristische Entwicklung von San Agustin (Kolumbien) im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Geschichte und Gewalt
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Reisebranche boomt. Auch das südamerikanische Land Kolumbien, dessen großes touristisches Potential aufgrund von Guerilla-Aktivitäten, ständigem Kampf gegen Drogenkartelle, Bestechungsskandalen, aber auch recht einseitiger Medienberichterstattung bis dato kaum ausgeschöpft werden konnte, will wieder mehr in das touristische Interesse rücken. Nach Angabe des Ministerio de Desarollo Económico ist der Tourismus einer der Sektoren, welcher am meisten durch die Rezession und die Probleme in der öffentlichen Ordnung betroffen ist. Nichtsdestotrotz ist gerade der Tourismus ein wichtiger Bestandteil zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen. Im Departement Huila, im Sü...
