Competitividad y estructura de la economía colombiana

"Polemical historical study of the origins of Panamanian secession and the role played by Colombian domestic actors and the US government. The evolution of Colombian-Panamanian relations since 1903, with particular reference to the issue of the Panama Canal is also analyzed. Denounces support of Panamanian separatism and its appropriation of the Canal Zone but also criticizes the behavior of Colombian parties and administrations for generating Panamanian resentment, opening doors to foreign intervention and failing to pay adequate attention to the inter-oceanic canal issue. Interesting...

Reports for 1836-37, 1843, 1865-66, 1877 include the Memoria of the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Las negociaciones de paz en la Habana dinamizaron los escenarios de reflexión sobre los problemas de Colombia y pluralizaron las voces que han intervenido en estos. La etapa más retadora sucede tras el acuerdo: la construcción colectiva de un país más democrático, equitativo y potenciador de las diferencias entre unos y otros, que enriquecen esa pluralidad. Este libro articula la intervención de un grupo amplio y heterogéneo de filósofos en esta incierta etapa donde se juega el futuro del país. Intervenciones filosóficas, porque las tareas de precisar, aclarar y problematizar los...