Between 1948 and 1958, Colombia lived through a war that preferred not to call itself one. La Violencia was not a civil war in the classical sense; there were no defined fronts or armies in the field, but rather a machinery of rural dispossession in which party affiliation decided the fate of farms and bodies. … CONTINUE READING →
The question that opens this series is not why the guerrilla arose in Colombia. The right question is why it took so long. A century of peasant demands answered with fire, of reforms announced and then dismantled, of legal avenues opened and closed by those who administered them. What happened in 1964 in the mountains … CONTINUE READING →
DOCUMENTARY SERIES · 9 EPISODES FIRST EPISODE OUT 30 MAY History of the Guerrilla in Colombia Colombia does not need another account of the guerrilla. The archives exist, the commissions too, and the bibliographies filling entire shelves that nobody reads because they are written for those who already know what they are looking for. What … CONTINUE READING →