Colombia en el sistema internacional: su proyección en Asia (Colombia in the international system: its projection in Asia)

La política liberal - La política conservadora - La oposición al régimen conservador - El tratado de 1914 y sus consecuencias - La cuestión petrolera - Los problemas financieros - Las obras públicas - Los conflictos sociales - La iglesia - Periódicos, periodistas y letrados.

Vistazo a la muestra - Respaldo a una democracia estable en Colombia - Corrupción y democracia - Estado de derecho y criminalidad - Gobiernos locales y democracia - Comportamiento electoral - Capital social y participación de la sociedad civil - Derechos armados y conflicto armado.

The old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.

A lengthy background essay on a 2007 World Court decision adjudicating a territorial dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia, as well as two 1898 documents related to the historic background of the case.