My Life As A Colombian Revolutionary

Author : María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592131018

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My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary by María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo Pdf

In My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary, María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vásquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a middle-class provincial household in which she was encouraged to be adventurous and inquisitive. As an eighteen-year-old university student in Bogotá, María Eugenia embraced radical politics and committed herself to militant action to rid her country of an abusive government. Dedicated and daring, Vásquez took part in some of the M-19's boldest operations in the 1970s and 1980s and became one of its leaders. She was able to avoid detection for nearly twenty years in the movement because she was both clever and considered too attractive to be a guerrillera. Her vivid narrative brings to life the men and women who were her comrades and conveys their anxiety and exhilaration as they carried out their actions. When she tells of her love affairs with some of M-19's top leaders, she cannot separate romance from camaraderie or escape a sense of impending tragedy. If Vásquez gave us only a rare insider's account of youth culture and a guerrilla movement in a Latin American country, this would be a book well worth reading. But she also gives us an unsparing analysis of what it meant to be a woman in the movement and how much her commitment to radical politics cost her. Author note: María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo is Director, Fundación Mujer y Futuro (NGO: Woman and Future Foundation), working in coordination with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the project "Mujer y Derechos" (Women and Rights), which serves women forcibly displaced by the armed conflict. The Spanish-language edition of this book, published as Escrito para no morir, was awarded the Colombian National Prize for Testimonial Literature in 1998. Lorena Terando is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Author : Rocío Velásquez Dresser
Publisher : Fortis Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913822818

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Life in My Father's Shadow by Rocío Velásquez Dresser Pdf

In the backdrop of 1960s Colombia, the author's world is defined by her father, a notorious figure known simply to most as 'The Doctor.' Dr. Velásquez is a rebel, a man of principles and a prodigious communist organizer in the Americas with ties to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and a prime target of the CIA with a bounty on his head. The 'Doctor' is forced into hiding leaving his daughter grappling with the void, bereft of the father she adores. Amid the chaos of the era, in an attempt to find him, she unravels the intricate tapestry of his clandestine life that intertwines politics, loyalty, and familial bonds. As the eldest of four siblings, she shoulders the responsibility of helping to raise her brothers and sister, witnessing her mother's sacrifices to safeguard the family. 'Life in My Father's Shadow, ' paints a poignant portrait of loss and redemption, exploring the depths of the author's yearning for a father she feels she barely knows as the book delves into the fervent political landscape of Colombia. A powerful, ravishing story of loyalty, political commitment, belief, hope and family bonds.

Author : James J. Brittain
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215330205

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Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia by James J. Brittain Pdf

An insider's account of Colombia's guerrilla war

Author : Ingrid Betancourt
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061857201

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Until Death Do Us Part by Ingrid Betancourt Pdf

Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and institutional neglect. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin American writers like Gabriel García Márquez, who frequented her parents' social circle. She studied at École de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in France. From this charmed life, Ingrid Betancourt -- not yet thirty, happily married to a French diplomat, and a mother of two children -- returned to her native country in the late 1980s. On what was initially just a visit, she found her country under internal siege from the drug cartels and the corrupt government that had allowed them to flourish. After seeing what had become of Colombia's democracy, she didn't feel she could leave. Until Death Do Us Part is the deeply personal story of a woman who gave up a life of comfort and safety to become a political leader in a country being slowly demolished by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. It is a country where democracy has been sacrificed for the well-being of the few, where international criminals determine policy, and where political assassinations are a way of life. Now forty, Ingrid Betancourt has been elected and reelected as a representative and as a senator in Colombia's national legislature. She has founded a political party that has openly confronted Colombia's leaders and has earned the respect of a nation. And now she has become a target of the establishment and the drug cartels behind it. Forced to move her children out of Colombia for protection against death threats, Ingrid Betancourt remained and continued to fight the political structure that has crumbled under the destructive power of the paramilitary forces, the financial omnipotence of the drug cartels, and the passivity of governmentfor-sale. Here is a political cocktail that has destroyed countless lives in Colombia and has spread to countries beyond its borders. A memoir of a life in politics that reads like a fastpaced political thriller, Until Death Do Us Part -- already an international bestseller -- is a hair-raising account of one woman's fight against the establishment. It is a story of a woman whose love for her country and faith in democracy gave her the courage to stand up to the power that has subjugated, intimidated, or corrupted all those who opposed it. A chilling account of the dangerous, byzantine machine that runs Colombia, it is also an inspiring story of privilege, sacrifice, and true patriotism.

Author : Cherilyn Elston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319432618

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Women's Writing in Colombia by Cherilyn Elston Pdf

Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Author : Fernando Herrera Calderón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317910312

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Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America by Fernando Herrera Calderón Pdf

Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America: A Primary Source History collects political writings on human rights, social injustice, class struggle, anti-imperialism, national liberation, and many other topics penned by urban and rural guerrilla movements. In the second half of the twentieth century, Latin America experienced a mass wave of armed revolutionary movements determined to overthrow oppressive regimes and eliminate economic exploitation and social injustices. After years of civil resistance, and having exhausted all peaceful avenues, thousands of working-class people, peasants, professions, intellectuals, clergymen, students, and teachers formed dozens of guerrilla movements. Fernando Herrera Calderón presents important political writings, some translated into English here for the first time, that serve to counteract the government propaganda that often overshadowed the intellectual side of revolutionary endeavors. These texts come from Latin American countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and many more. The book will be indispensable to anyone teaching or studying revolutions in modern Latin American history.

Author : Camilo Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Colombia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120841197

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Revolutionary Writings by Camilo Torres Pdf

Author : Ann Farnsworth-Alvear,Marco Palacios,Ana María Gómez López
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822373865

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The Colombia Reader by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear,Marco Palacios,Ana María Gómez López Pdf

Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of life have made and understood their own history. Comprehensive in scope, it covers regional differences; religion, art, and culture; the urban/rural divide; patterns of racial, economic, and gender inequalities; the history of violence; and the transnational flows that have shaped the nation. The Colombia Reader expands readers' knowledge of Colombia beyond its reputation for violence, contrasting experiences of conflict with the stability and significance of cultural, intellectual, and economic life in this plural nation.

Author : Chantal Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317286783

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Literary Translation by Chantal Wright Pdf

Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms. Literary Translation introduces students to the components of the discipline and models the practice. Three concise chapters help to familiarize students with: what motivates the act of translation how to read and critique literary translations how to read for translation. A range of sustained case studies, both from existing sources and the author’s own research, are provided along with a selection of relevant tasks and activities and a detailed glossary. The book is also complemented by a feature entitled ‘How to get started in literary translation’ on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal (http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/). Literary Translation is an essential guidebook for all students of literary translation within advanced undergraduate and postgraduate/graduate programmes in translation studies, comparative literature and modern languages.

Author : Forrest Hylton
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789602616

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Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton Pdf

Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee capitalism" gave way to the cattle and cocaine republic of the 1980s, and how land, wealth and power have been steadily accumulated by the light-skinned top of the social pyramid through a brutal combination of terror, expropriation and economic depression.

Author : Jacob N. Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691166308

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The Terrorist's Dilemma by Jacob N. Shapiro Pdf

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? This title examines the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured.

Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538163740

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Contemporary Latin American Revolutions by Marc Becker Pdf

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. Now updated to include the perspectives of grassroots revolutionary movements and biographies of often marginalized voices, this clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution in Bolivia; the Cuban Revolution that triumphed in 1959; the 1970–1973 Chilean path to socialism; the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua in power from 1979–1990; failed guerrilla movements in Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru; and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela after Hugo Chávez’s election in 1998. Historian Marc Becker opens with a theoretical introduction to revolutionary movements, including a definition of what “revolution” means and an examination of factors necessary for a revolution to succeed. He analyzes revolutions through the lens of those who participated and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of those political changes. Each case study provides an interpretive explanation of the historical context in which each movement emerged, its main goals and achievements, its shortcomings, its outcome, and its legacy. The book concludes with an analysis of how elected leftist governments in the twenty-first century continue to struggle with issues that revolutionaries confronted throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Michael J. LaRosa,Germán R. Mejía
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442275744

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Colombia by Michael J. LaRosa,Germán R. Mejía Pdf

Colombia is at a historic crossroads as its leaders implement peace accords that will end an undeclared but bitter civil war that has raged for more than half a century. Building a nation at peace will require the input and collaboration of both Colombians and the world community. Yet relatively little is known about Colombia in the United States and abroad. This deeply informed and accessible book traces the history of Colombia thematically over the past two centuries. In twelve interlinked chapters, Michael J. LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía depart from more standard approaches by presenting a history of political, social, and cultural accomplishments within the context of Colombia’s specific geographic and economic realities. Their emphasis on cultural development, international relations, and everyday life contrasts sharply with works that brand Colombia as a failed state, focusing on its violent past or on an economy deeply dependent on narcotics. Instead, the authors emphasize Colombia’s remarkable national cohesion and endurance since the early nineteenth century wars for independence. They explore two distinct eras: the “long nineteenth century” (1780–1899) and the “ongoing twentieth century” (1899–present). Including a photo essay, detailed chronology, and resource guide, this concise yet thorough history will be an invaluable resource for all those seeking a thoughtful, definitive interpretation of the rich heritage and dynamism that have characterized Colombia past and present.

Author : Ingrid Betancourt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101442913

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Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt Pdf

"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Even Silence Has an End is her deeply moving and personal account of that time. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special narrative-an intensely intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate reflection on what it really means to be human.

Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786470150

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Wars of Latin America, 1948-1982 by René De La Pedraja Pdf

This book continues the narrative begun by the author in Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941. It provides a clear and readable description of military combat occurring in Latin America from 1948 to the start of 1982. (In an unusual peaceful lull, Latin America experienced no wars from 1942 to 1947.) Although the text concentrates on combat narrative, matters of politics, business, and international relations appear as necessary to explain the wars. The author draws on many previously unknown sources to provide information never before published. The book traces the many insurgencies in Latin America as well as conventional wars. Among the highlights are the chapters on the Cuban and Nicaraguan insurrections and on the Bay of Pigs invasion. One goal of the text is to explain why, of the many insurgencies appearing in Latin America, only those in Cuba and Nicaragua were successful in overthrowing governments. The book also helps explain why even unsuccessful insurgencies have survived for decades, as has happened in Colombia and Peru. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.