La chicha, una bebida fermentada a través de la historia

"Exceptional studies on implications of specific reforms which followed adoption of 1991 constitution. Issues include waging of war and right to peace, Andean commercial integration, private property, and political reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"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...

CONTENIDO: El nudo gordiano de la justicia y la guerra en Colombia / Mauricio García Villegas, Rodrigo Uprimny / - Seguridad nacional y seguridad ciudadana. Una aproximación hacia la paz / Francisco Leal Buitrago, Patricia Bulla Rodríguez / - Humanización del conflicto y proceso de paz / Carlos Vicente de Roux / - Violencia urbana : teoría y políticas de seguridad ciudadana / Alvaro Guzmán Barney / - La cuestión agraria en la guerra y la paz / Alejandro Reyes Posada / - Violencia y equidad / Alfredo Sarmiento Gómez / - Narcotráfico y paz : alternativas y políticas / Alvaro Camacho...

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.