Contadora: War by Other Means
FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, THE CONTA- dora peace process has been the most popular game on the block ...
THE PEACE PROCESS
IN 1982, THE NEWLY-ELECTED GOVERNMENT of Belisario Betancur set Colombian politics on an un- charted course. Although Colombian elites had ...
Clouds Over Colombia
In 1998, Colombians were filled with optimism about the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the armed conflict that has ...
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
In July 2000, I was invited by a colleague to attend a conference at San Marcos University in Lima at ...
The Paramilitary Connection
In November 1981, the April 19th Movement (M-19) guerrilla group kidnapped and demanded ransom for Martha Nieves Ochoa, a member ...
Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Try to Survive
In the wake of the suspension of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...
The Art of Negotiation
On June 24, 1988 Texas oilman Jake Gambini was kidnapped in Colombia by a group of guerrillas. For the next ...
Elusive Peace: Struggling Against the Logic of Violence
Peace? What peace? As far as most Colombians are concerned, the peace process is going nowhere fast. "Do you approve ...
