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One title we think Dig listeners will like is Forgot in Peace, Reform, Violence, and the making of contemporary Colombia 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 in 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.

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