state-building by Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2002-2006
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. Bursts of appalling violence are punctuated by uneasy truces, cease- fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant ...