..., in isolation, might be seen as positive: a newly strengthened (if thoroughly EPL-dominated) labor movement began to argue forcefully for recognition and substantive concessions, the previously atomized growers joined together in an effective gremio and met the unions at the negotiating table, and the state...

... historically the ideological, political, and military evolution of the best-known guerrilla movements—FAR, EL, M19, EPL, PRT, MAQL— and their negotiations with Colombian governments. Chapter 12 describes the Coordinadora Guerrillera Simón Bolívar, a loose alliance of the guerrilla groups created in 1987, when...