Historia económica de Colombia

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

"Este libro es un testimonio de las mas representativas expresiones vivas del folclor colombiano, y dibuja un atractivo mosaico de sus diversas culturas regionales. Las significativas imagenes del fotografo ingles Jeremy Horner testimonian la fiesta, el carnaval, la feria, la mojiganga. Con el espiritu ritual y festivo propio de la celebracion, se divulga aqui una tradicion que se expresa al son de la musica, los desfiles, los disfraces, las mascaras, las comparsas y los bailes populares. Quien recorra este libro no solo percibira la alegria de sus protagonistas sino comprendera tambien como...