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Este libro busca contribuir a los procesos de análisis y comprensión de los heterogéneos modos de vida y las espacialidades rurales que producen distintos grupos sociales en medio de la persistencia de desigualdades sociales, dinámicas de violencia y conflictos socio-ambientales, pero con la esperanza de construir autonomía y garantías para una vida digna y en paz. Es elaborado a partir de un diálogo de saberes comprometido con la producción de conocimientos situados, con pertinencia social, entre la universidad y diversos sujetos rurales (campesinado, pueblos originarios -indígenas y afrodescendientes-, víctimas del conflicto armado, firmantes de la paz, entre otros); en él parti...
Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medillin hitmen, US kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talks to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal 'pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand. Cutting through the myths about the white market, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.
En el imaginario generalizado de la opinión pública de Colombia, la región de El Caguán aparece relacionada con la zona de despeje otorgada a las farc por el presidente Pastrana entre 1998 y el 2002 para facilitar los fallidos diálogos de paz con este grupo insurgente. Esta asociación natural con la zona desmilitarizada ha reforzado la percepción de estos territorios como parte del "revés de la Nación", o sea como uno más de los territorios de frontera, de las regiones periféricas que se resisten a ser insertadas en el orden político y económico del Estado central y la sociedad nacional, mirada que muchas veces es legitimada y fortalecida por las categorías y explicaciones que ...
“A much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and . . . an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall” (Choice). At the turn of the twentieth century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos (“Turks”). Seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, Sephardi Jews weren’t even identified as Jews. Yet the story of Sephardi Jewish identity has been deeply impactful on Jewish history across the world. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations, founded synagogues and cemeteries, and built strong ties with coreligionists around the country. Brodsky demonstrates...
Examination of the changing facade of the Argentinean Jewish community from the beginning of mass Jewish immigration in 1890 to its decline in 1930. Victor Mirelman, in his study of the greatest concentration of Latin American Jewry, examines the changing facade of the Argentinean Jewish community from the beginning of mass Jewish immigration in 1890 to its decline in 1930. During this period, Jews arrived from Russia, Poland, Romania, Syria, Turkey and Morocco Each group founded its own synagogues. mutual help organizations. hospitals. cultural associations. and newspapers of particular vitality was the Yiddish press and the Yiddish theatre. Jewish immigrants were also especially active pol...