...Chapter One in Making the Green Revolution examines the history of the Cauca Valley in Colombia. The valley of the Cauca River, this region has been celebrated for its fertility and prospects for tropical agriculture and industrial development since before Colombian independence...

...Chapter Three in Making the Green Revolution analyzes the Palmira Agricultural Experiment Station in Colombia’s Cauca Valley in the context of the global Great Depression. The chapter considers agronomy and crop research, as well as political strategies to advance agricultural...

...Chapter Four in Making the Green Revolution traces the history of sugarcane production and sugar milling in the Cauca Valley, the most important region for sugar production in Colombia. It outlines the emergence of the early sugarcane agribusiness sector in the region, then shows...

...Chapter Five in Making the Green Revolution introduces Colombia’s Cauca Valley as a major site for Cold War-era investment and development projects. The chapter shows how local officials courted international expertise to initially advance domestic development projects. Several...

...Chapter Six in Making the Green Revolution analyzes the Rockefeller Foundation’s Colombian Agricultural Program, or CAP, and the subsequent founding of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, in Colombia’s Cauca Valley. CIAT became one of the founding...

...This chapter focuses on the internal conflict in Colombia, which dated back more than four decades, with State security forces pitted against several insurgent guerrilla groups. During the late 1980s and 1990s, more than one hundred paramilitary groups organized and entered the fray, aligned...

.... This translation of Cesar Miguel Rondon's El libro de la salsa tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence and development in the 1960s as a distinct musical movement in New York. The book presents salsa...

... so by organizing diversity into regional spaces and human types, and by arguing that the nation was in the process of unifying through the emergence of a national race of Granadinos. Andes mountains Bogotá Botany and botanists Caribbean Coast of Colombia Chorographic Commission...

...The conclusion briefly places Colombia in a broader framework, comparing it to other Latin American cases. The conclusion also traces the commission’s problematic long-term legacies for Colombia itself. The Chorographic Commission’s cartography formed the basis of most maps of Colombia until...

...After the establishment of stable liberal democracy in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, there was balance in political participation and policy processes in these countries. This chapter analyzes the maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in each country, and examines similarities...

...This chapter focuses on how accommodation between rival elites and key political sectors influenced the establishment of liberal democratic regimes in Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Colombia. Emphasizing the critical role of elite accommodation in the foundation and maintenance of liberal democracy...

...Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of his magnificent oeuvre...

...In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions...

... Colombia out of the ashes of New Granada, although the war also left in doubt the democratic legacy of emancipation. Conservative Party in Caribbean Colombia Democratic culture and social status Employment rise in unemployment Equality and freedom Federal system Granadine Confederation Ospina...

..., and the government's mass denial of their legitimate standing threatened livelihoods and basic existence. Jefes Civiles y Militares Liberal Party rise of Nationalist Núñez Party in Caribbean Colombia Nieto Juan José political speeches of Thousand Days’ War 1899–1902 and Regeneration Vélez Joaquín Bogotá Colombia...

... with Colombia. A brief historical background is presented to establish context. News can be summarized simply as an account of the kidnapping of six men and four women of salaried thugs, their captivity, the government responses to the situation, the deaths of two female hostages, the anguish...

...Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative case studies showed that corporate congressional lobbies not only shaped the militarization of foreign drug enforcement but also drove the federal government’s drug war expenditures. However, how generalizable are these finding beyond Colombia and Mexico...

...The introduction to Making the Green Revolution contemplates the juxtaposition of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a global institution for research in critical food crops, in Colombia’s Cauca Valley, a region otherwise defined by extensive monoculture...

...In this study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia—Spain's Kingdom of Quito—the chapters argue that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. The book shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal...

...In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations—from FARC in Colombia to the Taliban in Afghanistan—our understanding of the nature and emergence of these groups takes on heightened importance. This book offers an analysis of the dynamics...