There is a version of history in which the United States and Israel subjugate Latin America through force, threat and blackmail. It is a comfortable version, because it distributes the roles neatly and absolves the peoples of the continent of their own responsibility. The real version is less consoling. The infrastructure of control, the military … CONTINUE READING →
In Montería, capital of the department of Córdoba, a secondary school student named Abelardo de la Espriella moved in the same social circles as Salvatore Mancuso, ten years his senior, the future commander of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia. They belonged to the same class, the same milieu, the city where men of law … 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 →