The National Front 1958-1974

What was the National Front? In the course of Colombian history, Liberals and Conservatives had, on critical occasions, put aside their partisan hatreds in order to save their country—and themselves—but the most durable constitutional construct of them all was the National Front (NF). Approved...

The Making of the Creole Peace, 1958–1960

This chapter discusses how the Lleras administration's political pardon and agrarian lending program extended to frontier Communists such as Manuel Marulanda an opportunity to restore their rights and livelihoods. Though Latin American historians have concentrated on the grander utopian visions of geopolitical insurgency and revolutionary politics that took shape after the Cuban revolution of 1959, the crux of Colombian politics remained in these local, regional, and national contexts. Moreover, situating peace alongside violence accordingly entails a sweeping reinterpretation of not only Colombian history but also the Latin American 1960s—ostensibly an era of revolutionary violence. A focus on peace reveals a greater coherence to the words and decisions of well-known historical figures such as Marulanda.

Forgotten Peace

This book examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. The book reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history—including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language—the book provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Broad in scope, this book challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America.

Gabriella Infinita: a perspective of Colombian history and culture through electronic literature

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n1p46Gabriella Infinita é um marco da literatura latino-americana digital do autor colombiano Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz. É um "romance hipermídia" em espanhol que foi originalmente escrito e publicado como um romance tradicional, impresso em 1994, para mais tarde se tornar um hipertexto e um romance hipermídia. Como uma peça literária, Gabriella Infinita é um excelente exemplo de literatura latino-americana. Ela traz à tona os assuntos que têm sido comuns a muitos países latino-americanos, tais como uma guerra civil, conflitos de guerrilha, repressão, liberdade de expressão, medo e exílio. Também destaca o fascínio da América Latina com os Estados Unidos e os movimentos de contracultura da década de 1970. Este ensaio explora como o escritor colombiano Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz usa as várias modalidades das novas mídias em seu hipermídia Gabriella Infinita para fornecer uma melhor compreensão da cultura e da história colombiana.