Party Politics, Reformism and Political Violence in Colombia

Party Politics, Reformism and Political Violence in Colombia

Colombia's two nineteenth-century oligarchical par- ties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, still dom- inate the political arena at the close ...
THE PEACE PROCESS

THE PEACE PROCESS

IN 1982, THE NEWLY-ELECTED GOVERNMENT of Belisario Betancur set Colombian politics on an un- charted course. Although Colombian elites had ...
The Paramilitarization of the War in Colombia

The Paramilitarization of the War in Colombia

Paramilitary violence is not complementary to military strategy. In fact, the paramilitaries have come to replace the armed forces, which ...