PARAMILITARY FORCES IN COLOMBIA

A review essay on books by (1) Gustavo Duncan, Los senores de la guerra: De paramilitares, mafiosos y autodefensas en Colombia ([The lords of war: From paramilitary mafia and paramilitary groups in Colombia] Bogota: Planeta; Fundacion para la Seguridad, 2007); (2) Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shooting Up: Co...

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Published in:	Latin American Research Review 2011-01, Vol.46 (3), p.191-200
Main Author:	Tate, Winifred
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	21st century America Andreas, Peter Anecdotes Armed forces Ávila Martínez, Ariel Fernando Bogota, Colombia Case studies Civil war Colombia Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris Counterinsurgency Developing countries Drug traffic Drug trafficking Duica Amaya, Liliana Duncan, Felbab-Brown, Garzón, León, López Hernández, Reyes Posada, Gustavo., Vanda., Juan Carlos > (Garzón Vergara), Juanita, --, Claudia Nayibe., Alejandro Economic growth Ethnology Field study Governance History Judicial corruption Landowners Organized Crime Paramilitary Forces Paramilitary groups Paramilitary organizations Peasants Political institutions Political leadership Politicians Politics Profits Review articles REVIEW ESSAYS Social organization, political organization and power, relations with the State Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity Social structure and social relations Violence War
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Summary:	A review essay on books by (1) Gustavo Duncan, Los senores de la guerra: De paramilitares, mafiosos y autodefensas en Colombia ([The lords of war: From paramilitary mafia and paramilitary groups in Colombia] Bogota: Planeta; Fundacion para la Seguridad, 2007); (2) Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010); (3) Juan Carlos Garzon, translated by Kathy Ogle, Mafia & Co.: The Criminal Networks in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Latin American Program, 2010); (4) Juanita Leon, translated by Guillermo Bleichmar, Country of Bullets: Chronicles of War (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009); (5) Claudia Lopez [Ed], Y refundaron la patria: De como mafiosos y politicos reconfiguraron el Estado colombiano ([And the nation was re-founded: How the Mafia and politicians reshaped the State of Colombia] Bogota: Random House Mondadori, 2010); & (6) Alejandro Reyes Posada with Liliana Duica Amaya, Guerreros y campesinos: El despojo de la tierra en Colombia ([Warriors and Peasants: The dispossession of land in Colombia] Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009).
ISSN:	0023-8791 1542-4278 1542-4278