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The objective of this work is to characterize the reproductive culture of the rural community El Guabino, from explaining the relationship between the major social, economic and political changes that have occurred throughout history. A triangulated methodology, where the reproductive behavior of the actors in practice was used was measured. The analysis of statistical data, questionnaire, key informant interviews were conducted and specialists, as well as the history of life theme were used. Was obtained as a result of research that major changes in reproductive culture of the community under study were related to the social, economic and political changes that happened to the revolutionary triumph of 1959. The main factors access was identified more efficient health and education systems, the incorporation of women in labor market, and religious practices are predominant in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the history of the emergence of generic medications in Colombia during de 1960's. It exposes that this emergence was the result of a merging between an industrial local sector, an industrial group from the United States and a pharmaceutical policy of the State. From the analysis of documents retrieved from the Ministry of Health, from the national and foreign press and some interviews with stakeholders, it is clear that the Ministry of Health and some of its workers stablished a pioneering policy within the continent. This policy strengthened the quality control of generic medications and it supported its diffusion. The Colombian State acted upon as an actor capable to regulate the harmonization between the benefits for the industry and the society seeking access to health. A first step taken by the Government and the industry toward the pharmaceuticalization of the society was the strategy of generics' consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Álvaro Cepeda Samudio's La casa grande as a fundamental text in the modernization of the Colombian novel and the country's cultural environment of the 1960s. It explores the way in which Cepeda Samudio makes use of the ambiguity of the Banana Massacre - the historical event on which the novel focuses - to construct a heterogeneous text of overlapping voices. The novel explores the theme of violence from a subjective perspective that reveals the cognitive limits of both history and myth and the inadequacy of personal experience to develop a rigorous understanding of historical crisis. I argue that La casa grande's aesthetic and narrative mechanisms constitute a new critical and conceptual approach towards Colombian sociopolitical violence. The article also details the novel's contribution to the development of the New Colombian Theatre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—FARC) was originally founded to protect Colombian peasants from harsh landowner policies in exchange for food and supplies. Over time, it has evolved into an internationally connected, narco-trafficking organization that displays little concern for the peasants it once vowed to protect. In recent years, Colombian authorities have become more adept at countering the FARC, forcing it to operate increasingly outside of Colombia. The FARC's transformation from a local insurgency into an internationally connected one is the focus of this article. Using social network analysis it identifies key leaders who are tied to this transformation and discusses implications concerning the FARC's future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article examines a period of violence in Colombia that took place in the mid-20th century, with focus given to the ways in which the body offers a useful lens with which to study this period. The authors draw on the work of sociologist Norbert Elias and philosopher Michel Foucault in order to explore the use of state terror as an instrument of Colombian social control and Colombia elites' attitudes towards peasants and Afro-Colombians.

The literature on intelligence little describes or comparatively analyzes the intelligence services of insurgent groups. This article partially fills the gap by assessing the intelligence activities of FARC - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. FARC intelligence displays similarities to, as well as sharp differences from, the intelligence activities of other insurgent groups and established states. Like FARC as a whole, FARC intelligence is decentralized. Its strength is its focus on tactical military intelligence. Collection on strategic political issues, analysis, and counterintelligence are relatively weak. FARC's intelligence weaknesses limit its prospects for strategic success and its intelligence-related vulnerabilities offer the Colombian government opportunities to exploit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyzes the "negro" representation in the projects of folklore diffusion that spread in the decade 1950-1960 as a product of a socio-political context characterized for its need to redefine national Latin-American identities. In Colombia, this process started in 1930 through the Liberal Republic educational policy, and was designed from the idea of a "mixed race country". The following document carefully explores the work and cultural management exerted by Delia and Manuel Zapata Olivella, two important milestones in the intellectual and cultural fields of the country. They became known for their contribution to the understanding of folklore and the inclusion of "negros" within national memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Carlos Lleras Restrepo is the emblematic Colombian president of the 1960s. The mark he made lasted until 1990, but his influence on the management of the Colombian economy started in the 1930s. This article focuses on the intellectual evolution of Carlos Lleras Restrepo between the 1930s and the 1960s. It examines the development of his concept of state intervention in the economy; describes the evolution of the Colombian economy in the second half of the 1960s while he was president; and provides details about two of his main contributions to the creation of Colombia's economic institutions: the Foreign Exchange Code of 1967 and the Constitutional Reform of 1968, which made economic planning constitutionally mandatory. Lleras Restrepo's presidential style and the role he gave technocrats in the management of the economy is also briefly discussed. The article confirms Lleras Restrepo's important contribution to building a modern state in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the novel Los parientes de Ester, by Luis Fayad, will be analyzed. The analysis allows to understand the author's ethical-aesthetic proposals (Bourdieu, 1997), as well as his evaluation of Modernity, the processes of modernization in Colombia during the Frente Nacional period (1958-1974) and their relation with the individual. This way, the article attempts to reinforce a new interpretation about Fayad's work that calls to question the way it has been studied and promoted in Colombia since the moment of its first edition issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on in-depth interviews following categories of class, generation and gender, the paper explores the arrival and diffusion of television in the city of Cali (Colombia) between 1954 and 1970. Memories about this slow and uneven process are interpreted within a framework that includes central features of modernization in the region such as the transformation of domestic areas, the acquisition of home appliances, and the revaluation of female labour, among others. Through a detailed description of the role of television in multiples areas of daily life, the study examines the process of incorporation of communication technologies into domestic spheres, understood as an area of convergence for public and private life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the figures of the neighbor and the stranger in two situations of extreme political polarization in Colombia, namely the La Violencia of the 1950s and the generalized war waged among the military, guerillas and paramilitaries. Both these periods have been characterized by widespread massacres that function as social symptoms of unsocializable violence. In these massacres, perpetrators carry out a series of semantic operations, permeated with enormous metaphorical force, that dehumanize the victims and their bodies. These technologies of terror seek to expel rural inhabitants from their homes in order to consolidate territorial control. Although massacres are a recurrent cultural practice, the specific alterities they are constructed around have varied from one period to the next. During La Violencia, which occurred from 1946 to 1964, neighbors used to sharing the same spaces and quotidian practices were transformed into strangers through the intervention of informants. At such a time, families in the countryside were politically affiliated with one of the two political parties. This bipartisan polarization coincided with and reinforced the social isolation of rural communities.