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This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine. This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia and how this social upset was ended in the early 2000s. Six chapters detail the Medellin and Cali cartels' war against the Colombian government

The life of Laureano Gómez (1889-1965), Colombia's combative Conservative politician and reviled public figure, serves as the backdrop for this modern history of one of the hemisphere's least understood nations. Tracing the complex process of development in Colombia, James Henderson explores the civil violence that defined the Gómez era even as the country experienced economic growth unparalleled in the rest of the Americas. ; http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/file/20ebf4dd-7579-09a0-4a43-16ccf958111c/1/Henderson,Modernization,9781616101220.pdf ; DL@upf.com ; Narrative text, Textbook ; University Press of Florida [UPF], James D. Henderson ; http://www.ogtp-cart.com/product.aspx?ISBN=9781616101220 ; Community College, Higher Education ; Expositive ; The life of Laureano Gómez (1889-1965), Colombia's combative Conservative politician and reviled public figure, serves as the backdrop for this modern history of one of the hemisphere's least understood nations. Tracing the complex process of development in Colombia, James Henderson explores the civil violence that defined the Gómez era even as the country experienced economic growth unparalleled in the rest of the Americas. ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In 1980 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation announced that its Movietone newsfilm collection, containing documentary footage produced between 1919 and 1963, would be given to the University of South Carolina. Soon thereafter one-fifth of the collection, some twelve million feet of unduplicated footage, was shipped to the university's central campus in Columbia. Transfer of the film was suspended, however, when Twentieth Century Fox was purchased by a multinational corporation. Footage for the years between 1919 and 1935, and for the period from September 1942 through August 1944, was included in the initial gift. This material is presently housed and available for research in Columbia, South Carolina. Among these materials are hundreds of thousands of feet of documentary film with Latin American content, much of it untouched since the time it was "vaulted" by Fox fifty years ago or more. As such, this material represents a largely unmined and potentially rich source of film information on Latin America. This research note will suggest the nature and extent of this collection.

El gobierno conservador de Laureano Gómez estableció en 1953 una comisión para elaborar un proyecto de reforma constitucional en donde se aumentaba el poder del ejecutivo, se disminuía el del Congreso, se fortalecía la Iglesia, etc., esperando con esto perpetuar, en la constitución, la política conservadora. Sin embargo, esto no pasó de ser un proyecto pues el golpe militar de Rojas Pinilla impidió siquiera su discusión.