Colombia’s government hands its Centre for Historical Memory to a denier of the conflict
Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia on 7 August…
HISTORY AND MEMORY
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HISTORY AND MEMORY
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In India, a minister’s resignation settles a recent fraud, not the exam machine that is a century and a half old
Last Saturday, as police fired tear gas at protesters in New Delhi, Dharmendra Pradhan…
THE STATE OF CRIME
DOCUMENTARY SERIES · 11 EPISODES History of Zionism Zionism needs neither another pamphlet nor…
EP09 – The Fractured Peace
Ten years after the signing at the Colón Theatre, the war has not resumed…
EP08 – From the Caguán to the 2016 Agreement
Colombia has signed peace with its guerrillas more times than a country should ever…
EP07 – Plan Colombia and Washington’s Footprint
A country does not become the stage for someone else’s war by accident. It…
EP06 – Paramilitarism as a Form of Government
In 1997, when the Castaño brothers brought the peasant self-defence groups of Córdoba, the…
EP05 – From the Revolutionary Tax to Cocaine
The financial history of the Colombian guerrilla is not a chapter in the history…
EP04 – ELN and M-19, Two Guerrillas, Two Readings
Every guerrilla is born of the same refusal, that of resolving by law what…
EP03 – La Violencia and the Birth of the FARC
Between 1948 and 1958, Colombia lived through a war that preferred not to call…
EP02 – Gaitán and the Broken Contract
In 1948, Colombia was a country where sixty per cent of the electorate voted…
EP01 – The United Fruit and the Pedagogy of Punishment
The question that opens this series is not why the guerrilla arose in Colombia.…