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Biografía de Marco Fidel Suarez
Historiar la vida y la obra del ilustre varón que ascendió, desde la humilde condición de su cuna hasta la gloria del Solio de Bolívar, no es tarea fácil ni liviana. El señor Suárez ofrece tantos puntos de interés, simboliza y encarna tantos conceptos intelectuales, políticos, humanísticos, y define con caracteres tan singulares las modalidades de su época y la misma inquietante parábola de su misma vida, que el solo intento de fijar en capítulos históricos su figura extraordinaria es ya un signo de decisión y de valioso empeño. Piénsese tan sólo en lo que representa para la tradición democrática de Colombia el hecho insólito de aquella soberbia humildad que, mimada si s...
Marco Fidel Suárez
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Colombia and World War I
In the horrific conflict of 1914–1918 known first as “The Great War” and later as World War I, Latin American nations were peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in 1917 did eight of the twenty republics declare war. Five others broke diplomatic relations with Germany, while seven maintained strict neutrality. These diplomatic stances, even those of the two actual belligerents—Brazil and Cuba—did little to tip the balance of victory in favor of the allies, and perhaps that explains why historians have paid scant attention to events in Latin America related to the war. Nevertheless, it is still remarkable that Percy Alvin Martin’s classic account, Latin Ameri...
