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One title we think dig listeners will like is Forgotten Peace, Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Columbia by Robert A. Carl.

Forgotten Peace examines Colombian societies attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict,

and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past.

Robert A. Carl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals,

during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism

transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history,

including an incredibly detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency,

Carl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development,

and memory formation in the 1950s and 60s.

Broad in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America

as the Colombian people work today to implement peace accords.

Forgotten Peace, Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Columbia by Robert A. Carl. Out now from University of California Press.

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This episode is the next in our series on Latin American politics, and it's about Colombia.

Under President Juan Manuel Santos, the government has reached a peace accord

with the FARC rebel group, which will hopefully put an end to a half century of armed conflict

involving the left-wing guerrillas, U.S.-backed government forces, right-wing paramilitaries,

and drug cartels. Though other guerrillas will remain active and the drug war will no doubt continue, the end of the war with the FARC marks a huge change for Colombians who have lived through unimaginable violence for decades.

My guest is Forrest Hilton, who has taught Latin American history in politics at Harvard, Northwestern, and the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.

He currently teaches at La Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellin.

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