Colombia: Between Legitimacy and Violence

Tuesday, April 26, 2022


Read before class:

  • Colombian Constitution 1991 (selections) (CP 246-250)
  • Starting Points for the FARC and the ELN (Colombia Reader 367-76)
  • Turning Points in the Colombian Conflict (Colombia Reader 426-33)
  • Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Diary of a Kidnapped Colombian Governor, selections (CP 251-254)
  • “General Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Building of a Stable and Enduring Peace” (Colombia Reader 591-98)
  • Caroline Sandoval, “Colombia Can’t Afford to Abandon Peace”
  • “Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom”