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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kline, Harvey F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negotiation--Colombia.

Negotiation.

Peace.

Colombia--Politics and government--1974-.

Colombia.

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.

Ejército de Liberación Nacional (Colombia).

Pastrana Arango, Andrés.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8137-6

OCLC:

213084565