Colombia-Venezuela

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

"En la obra de Uriel Cassiani sobrevive un mundo nuevo para nosotros, pero antiguo y vigente para una etnia que nunca ha cortado su cordón umbilical con la naturaleza [The work of Uriel Cassiani Pérez opens a world which is new for us, but is old and active for people who never cut their umbilical cords with nature]"-- John Jairo Junieles.

A novelized account of the assassination of revolutionary leader Jacobo Prías Alape in 1960, considered a turning point in the years just preceding the emergence of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia.

CONTENIDO: Voces de los invencibles respuestas indígenas al Plan Colombia - No puede haber paz sin los indios sentados a la mesa de las negociaciones - La batalla por el Putumayo - ¿Partidarios u obstáculos? Las ONG's y el Plan Colombia - Una historia de residencia espiritual - Fumigar cultivos, erradicar personas - Voces indígenas en Washington D.C. - Una experiencia en el Putumayo - Resistencia innovadora en el Cauca.