Segue Theotonio prologue to or livro dos Santos Rojas Carvajal Alpher, Diretor do Centro de Estudos Socio-Political and da Sulturais Colombia. It is also advisor to Senator Piedad Cordoba, struck down on their political rights on charges of collaborating with the FARC, in an arbitrary and undemocratic act of justice in Colombia. At present the proposed release FARC hostages and five current government intends to demilitarize the zone of delivery to allow them to do the humanitarian act. The court quash the mandate of President Santos?
also follows an exchange of correspondence on the prologue to the author:
LA ANATOMY OF DISASTER LOS
This
libro en un momento is published in which the problem it addresses is on the agenda. Everyone is touched by the increasing natural disasters that take many lives and destroyed entire regions. At the same time, a book by a scholar of social problems, particularly in its political dimension, and a militant of the socio-political struggles of a country full of dramatic social and political clashes.
The book shows how the problems of our time have exacerbated exceptionally in Colombia due to years of painful civil war, which is allied to the negative results of a political settlement of the oligarchies that isolated most its population from the political world. Colombia also experienced the phenomenon of the impressive expansion of the farm growing
PROLOGUE an extremely successful economically because of the dramatic increase of demand in the core countries of the world economy. A commodity of great economic value but terribly destructive social and moral - of cocaine. In a country where a high intellectual level, which is part of the author, is faced with this complex reality, yet without reaching a social support at the level of theoretical and analytical effort.
Alpher's book Rojas Carvajal, Director Corporation Sociopolitical and Cultural Studies of Colombia, is especially surprising for the successful combination of scientific research with a rare literary power.
He begins by presenting a newspaper picture of the 1999 earthquake in the coffee growing region of Colombia. Investigative journalism and deep, with high literary as we got used to admire Gabriel Garcia Marques, our dear Gabo, fine product of the Colombian intellectuals who always surprises us. A description of the dramatic events that lived the most diverse characters of this world so well presented in literature found another side of drama. The drama of an entire region with an extremely rich history which is presented as the terrible process of decay that was decaying in a sea of \u200b\u200bsocial violence and economic and social chaos that anticipates the terrible consequences of natural disaster.
It then enters the historian with an admirable summary of regional history and its national impact begins to make way for a new stage of his book. I wish I lived close to the world of medium owners, heroic leaders, many grassroots, social activists and ideologues and military leaders of the same origin for the intellectually desfrutar details of this construction literary history and the author provides.
This story and we also insert themselves into the world of regional decline that is mixed with the expansion of the cocaine business and (surprisingly for us) of poppy ... and the degradation of social and political environment that produces.
is then that we receive the sociologist and sometimes even the economist who analyzed under the suggestive title of "self-fulfilling prophecy, the impressive capacity of our socio-political structures ignore the results of scientific studies, especially when we announce a disaster gravity of what happened in the cities of the Colombian coffee zone.
Jeice The Japanese mission said in 1989 (ten years before the fatal earthquake) that "Armenia is sitting on a time bomb," Several seismic studies pointed to the occurrence of a major earthquake very strong which should occur within very short. But more seriously, as we know in almost all of Latin America - with the impressive exception of Cuba, considered by the United Nations the most advanced system of disaster prevention throughout the world - the worst thing is not really a natural phenomenon but urban chaos and suburban regions they made also as the disinterest of the authorities to provide combat its effects, which make planning that is not part of the characteristics of dependent capitalism in which we live, especially in recent years under the nefarious influence of neoliberalism.
But researcher and social activist Alpher Rojas Carvajal holds his book with a warning either economically based on the terrible business of "reconstruction" that he can describe in these 11 years after the earthquake. Which can be summarized in the following figure: the public corporation in charge of the reconstruction (FOREC) has driven a budget of U.S. $ 300 million for 17 local governments that had an approved budget for 1998-2001 of $ 18 million. The directors of this fund is administered through outsourcing arrangements, ie the contract private firms to perform the assigned work, not always necessary. The author warns us then for the new process clearly chaotic and corrupt that assumes that, like many others, processes of reconstruction. He holds his book by placing this issue on the global trends of contemporary capitalism.
In this time of serious natural disasters, this book earns particular significance and will surely be of great interest to readers Colombians but also for readers across the continent (including the inhabitants of the southern United States.) Moreover, as we say, your readers will be pleasantly surprised to be given to a dry subject through a very attractive writing style and a world made reflective so seriously.
Theotonio Dos Santos
Correspondência:
From: Alpher Rojas Carvajal
em Sent: Saturday, Janeiro 29, 2011 16:58
To: Theotonio Dos Santos
Assunto: RE: Theotonio prologue, delivered gratitude for your writing
Dear Teacher: pleasant greetings.
I am immensely recognized by your letter of introduction to my book "The Naked Citizens," because not only is a site of extraordinary aesthetic quality but rather Biern criteria ordered that let you analyze your usual rigor- scientific problems associated with capitalist globalization that pushed into poverty at least localities thought of the story.
renoverte take this opportunity to the testimony of my gratitude and my feelings of admiration for your intellectual work and hope to keep you informed of the publication process. Friend forever and ever,
red Alpher
P / S. Piedad sends you a big hug of gratitude for your solidarity with their cause. Will write later. ARC
From: Theotonio dos Santos
To: Alpher Rojas
Subject: prologue Theotonio
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:36:59 -0200
Dear Alpher
annexed Follow my prologue to your excellent book. Had wanted to work a little more but time does not allow me. If you do not like, descarartalo smoothly. Hugs to you and the Senator. Consider the appeal of its mandate an arbitrary act of righteousness that comes is behaving just as reactionary in Brazil.
Greetings
Theotonio
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