Hemisphere articles from September 22 2002

Hemisphere archives from September 22 2002

Colombia: recent works. (Publications Update).
September 22, 2002... Colombia is a land of unparalleled physical beauty and unrelenting violence. From the War of One Thousand Days beginning in the late nineteenth century through La Violencia in 1948-1953, violence has been the dominant theme of modern Colombian...

The roots of the conflict: examining the events that have brought Colombia to the edge.
September 22, 2002... The Colombian Civil War, by Bert Ruiz. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001. Bert Ruiz, director of the Colombian American Association in New York, has set himself the difficult task of reviewing Colombia's...

Life manifesto. (Photo Essay).
September 22, 2002... After a personal tragedy, I left Colombia and came to Miami. Soon, however, tragedy struck again in our family. I quit painting, went back to college and became a photographer. At that moment I could not deal with color. My life was...

Local autonomy, social control: decentralization as a strategy for government legitimacy in Colombia. (Features: political reform).
September 22, 2002... Decentralization in Colombia has not followed a steady path, but has instead been marked by significant breaks and interruptions. This article analyzes the principal steps in the process from 1968 to date. It focuses on the objectives of...

Colombia's left: a big--but hazardous--hope. (Features: the political left).
September 22, 2002... As the final votes were tallied in Colombia's 2002 presidential elections, the real surprise, was not the winner--Alvaro Uribe Velez, the clear frontrunner during the final months of the campaign--but the emergence of Luis Eduardo Garzon as the...

Communities in the crossfire: Afro-Colombians defend their territorial rights on the Pacific Coast. (Features: Afro-Colombians).
September 22, 2002... Colombia must be the only country in Latin America where one feels safer in the cities than .in the countryside. Paramilitary massacres, guerrilla attacks and kidnappings are the order of the day in rural areas. Powerful guerrilla movements and...

The urban battlefield: will Colombia's armed conflict spread to the cities? (Features: urban conflict).
September 22, 2002... Since the events of September 11, international observers have taken a new interest in Colombia. The conflict there has begun to be viewed as a logical next step in the Bush administration's self-declared war on terrorism. The campaign led...

Children of war. (Features).
September 22, 2002... More children than soldiers have been affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. As the violence has intensified, children have gone from being indirect victims to virtual prisoners of war. UNICEF estimates that 6,000 boys and girls have been...

Where are the women? The gendered body in Colombian soccer. (Reports: soccer).
September 22, 2002... The few sociological studies that look at soccer have found that sports play an important role in the creation of culture. Sports set in motion the forms of behavior of human actors and the historical authenticity of a society. A study carried...

"Little Colombia": teen immigrants make new lives in the US. (Reports: young files).
September 22, 2002... No one knows exactly how many families have fled the violence and deteriorating economic situation in Colombia. According to the 2000 census, the number of Colombian immigrants in Florida is as high as ! 90,000, but it may in reality be much...

An antidote to crisis: exploring the Colombian musical diaspora in Miami. (Reports).
September 22, 2002... Colombia is in crisis. These are the opening words of a report published by FIU s Latin American and Caribbean Center, "The Colombian Diaspora in South Florida," in May 2001. A year and a half later, the nation's crisis is more acute than ever....

From the editor.
September 22, 2002... A focus on terrorism and hostilities with Iraq have derailed the Bush administration's early plans to center its foreign policy on Latin America. In light of other priorities, only real crises in the region seem likely to recapture US...