Colombia
(see also Colombia: Violencia to 1980, Colombia: Drug Wars 1980-Present , Colombia: Black History, Life & Values, Colombia: Indigenous History, Life & Values & Colombia: Amazon Region)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
Colombia's Model City. Alan Weisman, In Context (fall 95). Paolo Lugari & Gaviotas, ecologically conceived settlement on the eastern llanos, est. 1971.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Poor But Happy. Wide-ranging, idiosyncratic commentary on Colombian lifeways.
On the Web: Specialized Publications
El Espectador. Bogotá weekly.
El Tiempo. Bogotá daily.
Letras Libres. Special Colombia issue (sum 01).
Crimes of War. Special Colombia issue (4/01).
US-Based Research & Advocacy Organizations
Center for International Policy (Colombia page).
Colombia Human Rights Network. Congressional action alerts & background information.
Colombia Labor Monitor. Tracks systematic extermination of trade union leadership.
Colombia Support Network. Action alerts & background information.
Fellowship of Reconciliation (Task Force on Latin America & the Caribbean). Trains & sends human rights accompaniment volunteers to Colombian "peace communities."
Global Exchange (Colombia Campaign). Action alerts & background information.
Human Rights Watch (Series of reports on Colombia).
Information Network of the Americas (Colombia Report).
Latin American Working Group. Coalition of advocacy groups for peace & justice in Latin America. See also their Colombia Policy Briefs page, with notes on policy debates & links to key documents
National Mobilization on Colombia. Coalition working to transform US policy towards Colombia.
North American Council on Latin America (NACLA). Publication NACLA Reports contains regular news & analysis on Colombia.
Peace Brigades International. Direct nonviolent action in defense of human rights.
Rainforest Action Network (U’wa Campaign). Defends U'wa land rights vs. oil companies.
Resource Center of the Americas.
UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies (Colombia site).
US Committee for Refugees (Colombia Project).
Washington Office on Latin America.
In the Library: Articles
Alvarez, Sonia; Marysa Navarro-Arangueren, Patricia Chuckryk & Nancy Saporta. "Feminisms in Latin America: From Bogotá to San Bernardo,"in Alvarez & Escobar (eds.) The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy (Bogotá, 1992), pp. 207-218.
Dongen, Van Rachel. "Leftists agenda for Bogota?" Christian Science Monitor (10/31/03):7-8.
__________. "Columbia's president faces make-or-break weekend,"
(10/24/03):7
García Márquez, Gabriel. "Bon voyage, Mr. President," New Yorker (9/13/93):100-11.
Pardo, Rodrigo. "Impact of the debt crisis on a regional power: the case of Colombia," Texas Journal of Political Studies 9 (fall-win 86-7):11-33.
Pereira Souza, Ana Mercedes. "El pentecostalismo: nuevas formas de organización religiosa en los sectores populares," Historia Crítica (Bogotá) 12 (1996):43-65.
Tardanico, Richard. "State responses to the Great Depression, 1929-1934: 'revolutionary' Mexico & "non-revolutionary' Colombia," in Tardanico (ed.) Crises in the Caribbean Basin (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986), pp. 113-40.
Thornton, W. Philip. "Resocialization: Roman Catholics becoming Protestants in Colombia," Anthropological Quarterly 57,1 (1/84):28-38.
Wirpsa, Leslie. "Tiberio de Jesús Fernández: massacre of the innocent," in M. Luke (ed.) Pilgrims & Seekers (Erie PA, 1995), pp. 143-48.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Acevedo C., Dario. Gerardo Molina: el magisterio de la política. Antología (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1992).
Applebaum, Nancy P. Muddied Waters: Race, Region, & Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948 (Durham NC: Duke, 2003).
Aptekar, Lewis. Street Children of Cali (DurhamNC: Duke, 1998).
Bagley, Bruce M. et al. (eds.) State & Society in Contemporary Colombia: Beyond the National Front (Boulder: Westview, 1988).
Berry, R. Albert et al. (eds.) The Politics of Compromise: Coalition Government in Colombia (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1980).
Brusco, Elizabeth E. The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion & Gender in Colombia (Austin: U. of Texas, 1996).
Bushnell, David. The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself (Berkeley: U. California, 1993).
Gaitán Pavia, Gloria y Carlos Moreno Espina. Poder local: realidad y utopía de la descentralización en Colombia (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1992).
Gallón Giraldo, Gustavo. Entre movimientos y caudillos (Bogotá, 1989).
Gómez, Laureano. El mito de Santander (2 vols.; Bogotá: Populibro, 1966). Key work for understanding conservative Catholic ideology.
González, Fernán. Iglesia Católica y el Estado Colombiano (Bogotá, 1989).
Green, W. John. Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism & Popular Mobilization in Colombia (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 2003).
Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco. La ciudad representada: política y conflicto en Bogotá (Bogotá: IEPRI, 1998).
Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia (NY, 1988).
Kofas, Jon V. Dependence & Underdevelopment in Colombia (Tempe AZ: Arizona State U, 1986).
Levine, Daniel. Religion & Politics in Latin America. The Catholic Church in Venezuela & Colombia (Princeton: Princeton, 1981).
__________. Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism (Princeton: Princeton, 1992).
Marcus, G. (ed.) Cultural Producers in Perilous States (Chicago, 1997), p. 373-94.
Medhurst, Kenneth N. The Church & Labour in Colombia (Manchester, 1984).
Molina, Gerardo. Proceso y destino de la libertad [1955] (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1989).
__________. Las ideas liberales en Colombia [1970-77] (3 vols.; Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1988-89).
__________, Luis Carlos Pérez y Mauro Torres. La crisis moral en Colombia (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1975).
__________ y otros. Liberalismo colombiano: historia y vigencia (Bogotá: Fundación Friedrich Naumann, 1980).
__________. Breviario de ideas políticas (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1981).
__________. Las ideas socialistas en Colombia (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1987).
__________. Testimonio de un demócrata (ed. Dario Acevedo; Medellín: U. de Antioquia, 1991).
Montenegro, Santiago & María Alejandra Vélez. The International Politics of Coffee & Oil in Colombia (Bogotá: U. de los Andes, 1998).
Morales Benítez, Otto. Testimonio de un pueblo (Interpretación económico-social de la colonización de Antioquia en Caldas: la fundación de Manizales) (Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1962).
Osorio Lizarazo, José Antonio. Gaitán: Vida, muerte y permanente presencia (Buenos Aires:López Negri, 1952).
__________. Colombia, donde los Andes se disuelven (Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 1956).
Pécaut, Daniel. Crónica de dos décadas de política colombiana, 1968-1988 (Bogotá, 1988).
Rivera Cusicanquis, Silvia. The Politics and Ideology of the Colombian Peasant Movement: The Case of ANUC (Geneva?1987).
Safford, Frank & Marco Palacios. Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society (NY, 2001).
Santa, Eduardo. Nos duele Colombia: ensayos de sociología política (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1962).
__________. Sociología política de Colombia (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1964).
Torres, Javier. The Armed Forces of Colombia & the National Front (Boulder, 1989).
U.S. Department of State. Colombia Country Report on Human Rights Practices
for 1997 (Washington, 1998).
Uribe Alarcón, María Victoria. Limpiar la tierra: guerra y poder entre esmeralderos (Bogotá, 1992).
Urrutia Montoya, Miguel. Winners & Losers in Colombia’s Economic Growth of the 1970s (NY, 1985)
Weisman, Alan. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green, 1998). Successful utopian eco-community, founded in 1971 amidst tragedy of civil war.
Wilde, Alexander. Conversaciones de caballeros: la quiebra de la democracia en Colombia (Bogotá, 1982).
__________. Creating Neo-Christendom
in Colombia (Kellogg Institute Working Paper 92; Notre Dame
IN, 1987).
__________. Redemocratization, the Church & Democracy in Colombia (Kellogg
Institute Working Paper 22; Notre Dame IN, 1987).
In the Library: Fiction
DeBerniéres. Louis. The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzmán (NY, 1992).
García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cien años de soledad] (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967; English trans.NY: Harper & Row, 1970).
__________. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel] (Bogotá: Aguirre, 196?: English trans. NY: Harper & Row, 1968).
__________. Los funerales de la Mamá Grande [Big Mama's Funeral] (Bogotá, 196?; English trans. pub. with No One Writes to the Colonel NY: Harper & Row, 1968).
__________. La hojarasca [Leaf Storm & Other Stories] (?; English trans. NY: Harper & Row, 1972).
Gardeazábal, Gustavo A. Bazaar of the Idiots (NY, 199?).
Osorio Lizarazo, José Antonio. La cosecha (Manizales: A. Zapata, 1935).
__________. El criminal (Bogotá: Renacimiento, 1935).
__________. Hombres sin presente (Bogotá: Minerva, 1938).
__________. Garabato (Santiago de Chile: Ercilla, 1939).
__________. La casa de vecindad: novela (Bogotá: Minerva, 194?).
__________. El hombre bajo la tierra (Bogotá: Biblioteca Nacional, 1944).
__________. El día de odio (Buenos Aires: López Negri, 1952).
__________. El pantano (Bogotá: Espiral, 1952).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Paredes Pardo, Jaime y Nereo. Los esperan y su imágen (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1965). Text & photographs on poverty in Colombia in the 60s.
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Brick Makers (Chircales)" [1972], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, 42m. From Cinema Guild. Chronicles day-to-day existence of peasant family that produces earthen bricks for a living.
"Camilo Torres: The Guerrilla Priest" [1975], dir.?, 54m. From Cinema Guild. Biography of priest/sociologist/guerrillero killed by government counterinsurgency forces in 1966.
"Campesinos (Peasants)" [1975], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, ?m.
"
Colombia’s Guerrilla War: A Sundered Nation," 52
m. Government & paramilitary forces terrorize populace to deprive FARC & ELN of civic support; resulting escalation may destroy country. From Films for the Humanities & Social Sciences.
"Courageous Women of Colombia," 24 min. From Green Valley Media.
"Diástole y sístole" [1999], dir. Harold Trompetero, ?m. 35-piece jigsaw puzzle on the difficulties of marriage in modern times.
"Fiction of War" [1999], dir. Sheila Franklin, 42 m. Victims of ongoing civil war tell stories; contrasts official account of war with that of church & human rights workers. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Gabriel García Márquez:
La Magia de lo Real (in Spanish or English,". 60 m. Shot on Colombian coast,
incorporates rare archival footage to explore world of GM's 100 Years of
Solitude. From
Films for the Humanities & Social Sciences.
"Gabriel García Márquez: A Witch Writing," 52 m. In-depth
interview with author at home in Cartagena. From
Films for the Humanities & Social Sciences.
"The Invisible Children (Los niños invisibles)" [2001], dir. Lisandro Duque Naranjo, 90m. Three village boys in 1950s try to make themselves invisible with a book of black magic. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Love, Women & Flowers (Amor, mujeres y flores)" [1988], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, 52m. Women workers in export flower industry suffering health damage from pesticides & fungicides, struggle to organize.
"The Masked (Los enmascarados)" [1996]," dir. Carlos Aparicio & Adriana Saldarriaga, 58 m. Violence in Medellín led to formation of "popular militias" to execute thieves, rapists, prostitutes, homosexuals & local drug dealers. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Mientras arde el fuego" [1982], dir. Julio Roberto Peña, 100m. Peasants suffer serious health problems from pesticide poisoning but get no help from medical or political establishment.
"Never Again (Nunca más)" [2000], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Fernando Restrepo, 56 m. Survivors of 1997 massacres in Antioquia & Chocó, interviewed in internal refugee camps about business interests behind their displacement, & efforts to organize for return. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Our Lady of the Assassins (Nuestra Señora de los Sicarios) [2000], dir. Barbet Schroeder, 98 min. Elderly writer returns from exile to violence-ridden Medellín, tries to make sense of it all with help of a young lover. In video stores.
"Planas, testimonio de un etnocidio" [1971], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, ?m.
"The Prosecutor [1996]," dir. Adelaida Trujillo, 25 m. Story of public prosecutor Alfonso Valdivieso’s effort to unmask political corruption in the face of constant death threats. From Latin American Video Archives.
"El reino de los cielos" [1995], dir. Patricia Cardoso, 50m. Blind water carrier recovers sight after fifty years in dark; & then his troubles begin.
"Repression of Social Protest & Labor Action in Colombia (Represión de la protesta social y la acción sindical en Colombia)" [1998], dir. ?, 52 min. Interviews outspoken labor lawyer (later murdered); striking images of coca field workers & violent repression. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Rodrigo D. (No Future)" [1980], dir. Victor Gaviria, 92 m. Real street kids of Medellín in late 1980’s endure chronic violence & hope for stardom as punk rock musicians. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Running for Bogotá"
[1998], dir. Odile Isralson & Lina Matta, 51 m. Supermom & famous
singer/soap opera star try to make a difference by running for Congress in 1998.
From Latin American Video Archives.
"Secuestro: A Story of a Kidnapping
[1993]," dir. Camila Motta, 92m. Recreates real-life kidnapping for ransom
of 20-year old daughter of wealthy industrialist. From Cinema Guild.
"Speaking Out: Displaced Colombians Silent No More" [2001]. 1.9 million Colombians displaced by political violence tell stories, demand safety & means to support families. From US Committee for Refugees.
"Terminal" [1999], dir. Jorge Echeverri, ?m. Descent into personal hell of a man whose wife abandons him, against backdrop of the Bananeras de Urabá massacre.
"La voz de los sobrevivientes' [1980], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, ?m.