Violence in Columbia

The principal reason for Violence in Colombia's publication appears to have been to explain how the widely reported incidents of violence in Colombia in the modern period evolved from the realities of the political and social scene of the country over a period of decades dating from the time of independence from Spain in 1819. Indeed, to understand the phenomenon of violence in modern Colombia, it is important to recognize the background of political evolution in Latin America more generally, as well as the often complicated political history of the country itself. The essays in Violence in Colombia discuss how the political past of the country impinges on and in part determines the environment of its political present and the elements that make up its social and political structure on one hand and the overlay of v

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social welfare reform, negotiations with guerrillas, military and paramilitary actions against a partly politicized drug mafia, persistent government corruption, the increasingly action- and violence-oriented economic, political, and armed-force power of assorted drug mafia vis-a-vis both corrupt and honest government candidates and officials, and the apparently permanent disconnect between rival elites and the great mass of Colombian citizens. In recent years, indeed, patterns of violence and brutal murders in Colombia have expanded to include increasing numbers of civilians more generally. Equally, elements of all social strata--from the highest elites to the poorest of the poor--appear to have been touched by, if not affiliated with, drug trafficking. For example, right-wing paramilitary groups ostensibly formed to combat a drug-trade culture increasingly affiliated with leftist guerrilla groups but in fact connected to drug-mafia factions of their own, have enlarged their mission to one of social engineering, target such marginal populations as prostitutes, homosexuals, drug addicts, and the poor. The sheer volume and complexity of political activity in Colombia in recent years cannot be overstressed, although each essayi
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Approximate Word count = 1966
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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