Entre la legitimidad y la violencia: Colombia 1875-1994

Abstract

The author makes a chronological description of the national history in six chapters, which collect the main events that occurred in the country, from the year 1875 to the 1991 constitution. Each chapter includes economic, social and political aspects of the specific period that it deals with, offering a comprehensive history of the 20th century. It is a valuable contribution of global synthesis that begins in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the country continued to be limited by the restrictions of the colonial era, ruralization, poverty, the plurality of hierarchies derived from agrarian individualism and the remnants of estates and servitude. , ignorance and the scarcity of capital until the second half of the 20th century, the subject of the last chapter. In this, the author recreates the changes in the country, with pirate urbanizations, slums, invasions and informal employment. It goes through popular culture, rumba, telenovela and ranchera song to end in the section titled el derrumbe. This collapse has to do with corruption from above, the anomie of the poor, the political disenchantment of the middle classes, the vertiginous expansion of violent and street crime and a response by the State to the criminal phenomenon such as social danger, defense of order public or national security.

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