Dioselina Tibaná y la cocina de la ironía política

Santiago Rivas, Nicolás Samper, Federico Arango and Juanfelipe Sanmiguel, who have experience in publishing and worked in various media, developed a compendium of characters and situations typical of our idiosyncrasies and present it in the form of text, drawings and graphic ludicrousness, on five themes: bureaucracy, gastronomy, culture, sport and power.

"As the Samper government was rocked by allegations of drug-related corruption in the presidential campaign of 1994, Colombia's endemic crisis of governability, violence, and political participation took a dramatic turn for the worse. Moreover, Colombia/US bilateral relations degenerated into mutual accusations and recriminations. In this book, several of Colombia's leading political analysts assess this crisis and its implications for the maintainance of political stability and consolidation of democracy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...

Crecimiento, distribución del ingreso y pobreza - El crecimiento económico - Pobreza y desigualdad - La política de población - El rezago de la educación en Colombia - El problema del empleo - El modelo pensional - Los servicios públicos en Colombia - Los desafíos de las finanzas públicas.