Joaquín Camacho

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.

La hojarasca (1955) es la historia del entierro de un hombre, un médico misterioso y odiado, al que sus vecinos quieren dejar insepulto. Al mismo tiempo es la historia del odio acumulado durante veinticinco años en Macondo, un lugar llamado a ser, pocos años después, famoso en el mundo entero.

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

En la agenda comun acordada entre las Farc y el gobierno, se le asigna un lugar importante a las cuestiones economicas. En la agenda se habla de revision del modelo de desarrollo economico, politica social y modelos economicos, empleo, medio ambiente, neoliberalismo, entre otros; son asuntos de gran trascendencia para el futuro del pais y sobre ellos se ha venido debatiendo desde tiempo atras.