Download or read book Soldiers Guerrillas and Politics in Colombia written by Richard L. Maullin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hostage Nation written by Victoria Bruce and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.

Download or read book Colombia s Killer Networks written by Human Rights Watch/Americas and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VI. The U.S role

Download or read book Guerrilla Marketing written by Alexander L. Fattal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand warfare is real. Guerrilla Marketing details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of information warfare, Guerrilla Marketing combines archival research and extensive fieldwork not just with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and former rebel communities, but also with political exiles in Sweden and peace negotiators in Havana. Throughout, Fattal deftly intertwines insights into the modern surveillance state, peace and conflict studies, and humanitarian interventions, on one hand, with critical engagements with marketing, consumer culture, and late capitalism on the other. The result is a powerful analysis of the intersection of conflict and consumerism in a world where governance is increasingly structured by brand ideology and wars sold as humanitarian interventions. Full of rich, unforgettable ethnographic stories, Guerrilla Marketing is a stunning and troubling analysis of the mediation of global conflict.

Download or read book Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins written by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1986 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updates "The Central-Americanization of Colombia? : human rights and the peace process", and is based on information gathered between January and mid-July 1986 - Acknowledgements.

Download or read book Plan Colombia written by Luz Estella Nagle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War Without Quarter written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws of war and Colombia

Download or read book The Battle for Peace written by Juan Manuel Santos and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both large and dangerous. All previous attempts to negotiate with the FARC had failed, creating an environment where differences were irreconcilable and political will was scarce. The Battle for Peace is the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution. In The Battle for Peace Juan Manuel Santos shares the lessons he learned about war and peace and how to build a successful negotiation process in the context of a nation that had all but resigned itself to war and the complexities of twenty-first-century international law and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that there is no handbook for making peace, he offers conflict-tested guidance on the critical parameters, conditions, and principles as well as rich detail on the innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just solution.

Download or read book State of War written by Cynthia Arnson and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colombian Army Adaptation to FARC Insurgency written by Thomas Marks and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgency is a political campaign to mobilize the disaffected and the dispossessed into an alternative society. Until it can actually liberate areas openly, this takes the form of covert infrastructure. Always, unless the insurgents are incompetent which does happen with startling regularity their ultimate goal in deploying power is to create and safeguard the alternative to the society that they are creating. Governments, faced with violence directed at the system, initially go after that which they can see, insurgents with weapons, leaving the infrastructure virtually alone to grow and become ever more deadly. The forces of the state thus normally seek to "close with and destroy the enemy, while the insurgents continue the process of successively dominating areas. What makes it so difficult for systems to see their way clear to an accurate appreciation of the situation is that the people in positions of authority are those who often have benefited from the status quo. They are comfortable with the way matters are, understand them, can't figure out why anyone would expect them to be otherwise. And even if they allow for the possibility of disaffection, they are expecting Robin Hood and his Merry Men to break from the forest and storm the castle. They are certainly not expecting a war in the shadows. The bottom line is that society sends its security forces out to do what they get paid to do, arrest folks; if necessary, to crack some skulls. The rhythms of life go on until the brutal reality of war intrudes. In those societies which have successfully dealt with this intrusion, response has involved considerable adaptation in existing institutions. This has especially been the case as concerns the armed forces, with the army, as the major ground domination arm, facing perhaps the greatest task. Roots of the Insurgency. The Colombian army (COLAR) has taken the lead in the national response to the decades-old insurgency of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC. Just as Manila had its Huk Rebellion followed by its insurgency of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP), the second conflict rising from the ashes of the first, so Bogota has seen the survivors of an earlier 1959-65 conflict resurface as communist insurgents who have become the most immediate political problem facing the country. The present insurgent situation, in other words, has been a long time coming. What makes it such a difficult and now intractable problem is that it has become a creature of more fundamental structural contradictions long present in the Colombian polity, in particular a lack of state integration and cohesion. The historic symptom of this has been a profound legacy of violence. Twice as many people are murdered each year in this country of less than 40 million as in the entire United States with its roughly 280 million population! Precisely why Colombia has this profile is a subject of much debate. The answer seems to be an early history that boils down to a squabbling group of settlers in a vast land with politics a zero-sum game. The practical effect was that formal democracy, established in the mid-19th century, remained a truly winner-take-all proposition. Thus those in office had every incentive to do all they could, fair or foul, to hang onto power and to plot to get back into power once they were out. This led to multiple civil wars over the years, including the Thousand Day War, 1899-1902, in which over 100,000 were killed.

Download or read book Colombian Army Adaptation to FARC Insurgency written by Thomas A. Marks and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author points out that Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgents actively are pursuing a strategy to mobilize the disaffected and disposed people of Colombia, and to control the entire national territory. At the same time, he argues that no one in the national political establishment has taken the initiative to conduct an appropriate effort to deny FARC its objective. As a result, the Colombian Army has been left alone to direct the fight, without a coordinated and integrated national campaign plan or other resources that would allow for success. The author concludes that the Army has bought time, and there is still an opportunity for the United States to help Colombia deal with its insurgent threat in new ways.

Download or read book Political Murder and Reform in Colombia written by Juan E. Méndez and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents.

Download or read book Plan Colombia written by Gabriel Marcella and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs written by J. Rochlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia and Mexico. These countries form the ideal comparative case study of RMA, both from above by the state, and below by civil society.

Download or read book The Sixth Division written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. aid to Colombia

Download or read book Colombia s Three Wars written by Gabriel Marcella and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia is the most troubled country in the Western Hemisphere. Drug criminals, guerrillas, and paramilitary groups are feeding a spiral of violence that makes "colombianization" a metaphor for a failing state. The authors address the strategic dimensions of the crisis. It argues that Colombia's future deeply affects regional security and U.S. interests. The country's afflictions are spilling over its borders, threatening Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and the Caribbean. At the same time, Colombia is the origin of most of the cocaine and heroin entering the United States. The fear is that, if the situation continues to worsen, the country may become balkanized, with large areas under the de facto control of guerrilla and paramilitary regimes based, in large part, on narco-economies. U.S. policy is now at a critical juncture. A decision has been made to become more engaged in the war against narcotrafficking. Yet, the question remains: Can counternarcotics be separated from counterinsurgency? The authors believe that it cannot--that everything is related to everything else--and that unless the Colombian and U.S. governments address the problem through the creation of a coherent, holistic strategy, the situation will become much worse. In the latter half of their report, they discuss both the military and nonmilitary components of such a strategy. Among other things, they contend that restrictions on U.S. police training and counterinsurgency assistance should be removed or revised in order to enable the Colombian security forces to halt the momentum of the insurgents and paramilitaries and give them incentives to negotiate seriously. They also argue that a respect for human rights is of strategic importance.

Download or read book Countering Threats to Security and Stability in a Failing State written by Peter DeShazo and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the CSIS Americas Program examines developments in Colombia to assess the lessons to be learned from that country's impressive recovery. The report analyzes why Colombia was on the road to possible state failure, how the process was reversed, and what will be needed to sustain progress. It also considers the role of U.S. assistance to Colombia since approval of the "Plan Colombia" special supplemental in 2000. The report highlights practical lessons from Colombia as a case study in countering challenges to security and stability in a weakened state. It will serve as an important point of reference for policymakers on Colombia-specific issues - as well as for those addressing challenges such as an inadequate state presence, large ungoverned spaces, weak rule of law, insurgencies, and a large-scale narcotics economy in other parts of the developing world.