Evil Hour in Colombia
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Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. This book explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. It shows how patterns of political conflict after 1848 explain the war destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory.
Colombia's war-without-end has been sustained by US intervention and subsidized by our own ignorance and indifference to the fate of this great countryEvil Hour in Colombia is a brilliant investigation of a complex and tragic history, as well as an eloquent indictment of Washington's policies. -- Mike Davis
A corrective to those servants of empire who would have us believe that the main threat facing Latin America today is left-wing populism, Forrest Hylton's Evil Hour in Colombia describes in alarming detail the real danger to the region: the spread of paramilitarism, which in Colombia has grown beyond its rural death-squads roots to graft itself into the highest branches of government, crime, and society. This book is an exacting portrait of the face of American 'hard power' in the Andes, a must read for anyone interested in what awaits the rest of the world if Washington's power remains unchecked. -- Greg Grandin
A corrective to those servants of empire who would have us believe that the main threat facing Latin America today is left-wing populism, Forrest Hylton's Evil Hour in Colombia describes in alarming detail the real danger to the region: the spread of paramilitarism, which in Colombia has grown beyond its rural death-squads roots to graft itself into the highest branches of government, crime, and society. This book is an exacting portrait of the face of American 'hard power' in the Andes, a must read for anyone interested in what awaits the rest of the world if Washington's power remains unchecked. -- Greg Grandin
Forrest Hylton is a researcher in history at New York University. He is an editor of and contributor to Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena, 2nd edition, and the co-author, with Sinclair Thomson, of Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844675517 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844675513 |
| Title | Evil Hour in Colombia |
| Author | Forrest Hylton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2006-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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