Chronicle of a failure foretold : the peace process of Colombian president Andres Pastrana / / Harvey F. Kline

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827594503321
• Autore: Kline Harvey F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8173-8137-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 986.106/34
• Soggetti: Negotiation - Colombia; Peace; Colombia Politics and government 1974-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Colombia before the presidency of Andres Pastrana : the context for failure -- The immediate context for the Pastrana negotiations : the government of Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) -- The FARC negotiations begin : June 1998-January 1999 -- The first agreements of the FARC negotiations : January 1999-January 2001 -- The negotiations in 2001 : agreements on process but not on substance -- The FARC negotiations end : January-February 2002 -- The ELN discussions through the Declaration of Geneva : September 1998-July 2000 -- The failure of the ELN discussions -- Why the Pastrana peace process failed.
• Sommario/riassunto: Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana's efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war. The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, co