... paramilitaries drug traffic the state neoliberalism sovereignty ...

... civic strikes guerrillas USO cold war paramilitaries ...

... This chapter examines the emergence of a violent new configuration of power in Barrancabermeja, between 2000 and 2006, in which paramilitaries forged a realm of de facto sovereignty that was grounded in the violent repression of labor, the suppression of democratic processes, and the control...

... Simón Bolívar nineteenth-century civil wars Soledad Acosta de Samper guerrilla groups in Colombia paramilitaries ...

... This chapter documents how counterinsurgent, paramilitary terror unmade Barrancabermeja’s working class by rupturing the fabric of popular solidarity and dispossessing and displacing working people from the late twentieth century to the present. Political violence provided both the preconditions...

... and the paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño. The point of view of a captured police colonel is provided by the inclusion of a personal letter written by Luis Mendieta, who was held by the guerrillas in substandard conditions at jungle outposts for more than a decade. Violence Simón Bolívar nineteenth-century...

.... civic strikes guerrillas USO cold war paramilitaries ...

... paramilitary lines. Its members see themselves as being engaged in a perpetual struggle both for Camba culture and against efforts by the central government in La Paz to exert control over the region’s political, economic, and cultural interests. The Youth Union trains its members in marching, close-unit...

... of Democracy ( conade ) held an emergency meeting in the offces of the Bolivian Workers Central ( cob ). They were surrounded by paramilitary agents who arrived in ambulances and forced the civilians to come out lined up with their hands behind their heads. On the staircase of the building, a burst of gunfire...

... of the organization and its methods are in some ways modeled along paramilitary lines. Its members see themselves as being engaged in a perpetual struggle both for Camba culture and against efforts by the central government in La Paz to exert control over the region’s political, economic, and cultural interests...

... July 1980, General Luis García Meza initiated the most brutal of all the Bolivian coups. Quiroga and the rest of the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy ( conade ) held an emergency meeting in the offces of the Bolivian Workers Central ( cob ). They were surrounded by paramilitary agents...