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"Colombia's Sicarios", Life and Death, Past and Present in Medellin(1866 clicks)
By Alex Taylor, University of Saskatchewan

Bogota(1045 clicks)
From the collection of Dr Kris Lane. Click on the thumbnails.

Carlos Vidales, La violencia en Colombia (I)(1534 clicks)
Stockholm, 1997. "Escribí este trabajo como una contribución al debate en la Jornada de Reflexión sobre Colombia, que tuvo lugar en Estocolmo el día 26 de abril pasado. Yo esperaba que estas líneas estimularan una discusión abierta, franca, fraternal y constructiva. Por desgracia no fue así. Mis opiniones fueron recibidas con tergiversaciones, provocaciones de índole personal y amenazas veladas. Esto me obliga a publicar ahora mi ensayo, agregándole notas aclaratorias (entre paréntesis) para responder a quienes, incapaces de debatir con argumentos, han recurrido a la mentira y a la agresión." He wrote three more articles after this one.

Cipriano Castro y la Gran Colombia(1334 clicks)
"La Guerra de los Mil Días desde una perspectiva internacional."

Colombia and Violence(1622 clicks)

Colombia: A Country Study(1521 clicks)
From the Library of Congress.

Colombia: History and Background(1584 clicks)
Articles from a group that supports peace.

DOCUMENTS IMPLICATE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN CHIQUITA TERROR SCANDAL(654 clicks)

Documents Implicate Colombian Government in Chiquita Terror Scandal(594 clicks)
National Security Archive

Geographical and Historical Introduction(1390 clicks)
In Spanish or English. The 1,000 Day War, La Violencia, occupation of the Justice Palace in 1985, and more. Human Rights Colombia.

Globalization and Transnational Organized Crime(167 clicks)
Russian Maffia in Latin America and the Caribbean by Bruce Bagley

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla(1422 clicks)
General and President of Colombia, 1953-1957 when he overthrew the government and installed himself as dictator. This site, in Spanish, is an encyclopedia of Colombia.

Herbert Braun, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan y la Modernidad(1293 clicks)
Article on the leftist leader killed in 1948.

History of Colombia(1369 clicks)
Succinct essay.

History of the Guerrilla Movement in Colombia(1172 clicks)

Impact of the Illegal Narcotics Trade on Economic and Legal Institutions in Colombia(1015 clicks)
Very important study.

José Manuel Restrepo and the Emergence of Colombian Political Culture(897 clicks)
Roger Davis, "José Manuel Restrepo and the Emergence of Colombian Political Culture,"Reprinted with permission from Platte Valley Review, 17:2 (Spring, 1989), 5-13.

Killing Pablo(1135 clicks)
Philadelphia Inquirer series of the kiliing of Pablo Escobar, drug kingpin of Colombia.

Laura Garces, The dynamics of violence(1099 clicks)

Lowland Colombia(923 clicks)
From the collection of Dr Kris Lane. Click on the thumbnails.

Popayan Area(906 clicks)
From the Dr. Kris Lane collection. Click on the thumbnails.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia(1451 clicks)
The FARC, the revolutionary guerrilla movement, had its own website but it was removed from its German server. . Mostly in Spanish. Here is another site.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)(1132 clicks)
July 2000. Site with links to materials.

The Impact of the Illegal Narcotics Trade on Economic and Legal Institutions in Colombia(949 clicks)
Book by Patricia McRae, noted political scientist.

US Support for Plan Colombia(1835 clicks)
State Department site.

Víctimas del Genocidio Político contra Unión Patriótica(1038 clicks)
Political site from the Manuel Cepeda Vargas Foundation.

War on Drugs(1020 clicks)
Articles. Critical of the US effort.

War on Drugs and Human Rights in Colombia(1068 clicks)

Whither Colombia?(129 clicks)
By Bruce Bagley. pdf format