Growth averaged nearly 5 per cent between 2010 and 2014, while inequality remained vertiginous.
Uribe’s senior by one year, Santos is the scion of an elite family
Their continued activities belied government claims that all paramilitaries had laid down their arms following a government-sponsored demobilization programme that began in 2003
from Amnesty International’s 2010 Colombia report
marking the end of a Conservative–Liberal dyarchy that had lasted for more than a century
The old state was to be smashed, but the new one put in its place would wither away with the fulfilment of its transitional tasks. This break with Jacobin statism was reactivated in his later portrait of the Paris Commune, and would become a tenet of a later revolutionary Marxism.
