San Antonio College Library

Presents the geography, history, government, economy, and social life and customs of the country of Colombia, located in the northwestern part of South America.

Written by two leading historians, this book traces the history of Colombia thematically, covering the past two centuries. In ten interlinked chapters, the authors depart from more standard approaches by presenting a history of political, social, and cultural accomplishments within the context of Colombia's specific geographic and economic realities. Their emphasis on cultural development, international relations, and everyday life contrasts sharply...

This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women - all journalists but one - by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender. From the highest corridors of government...

In November 1985, Colombia's M-19 Revolutionary Movement invaded the nation's Supreme Court, holding hostage its 300 civilians, including most of the Supreme Court justices and members of the Council of State, in a golpe revolucionario publicitario - a spectacle that would seize international headlines. Their plan was to persuade the justices to put on trial the country's civilian government. Their hope was that in such a trial the government would...

The life of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez is illuminated via autobiographical statements, readings from his works, and scenes of Colombia.

Por primera vez en un solo volumen, la producción artística gestada en el actual territorio de Colombia, desde las manifestaciones previas al Descubrimiento hasta aquellas aparecidas a lo largo del siglo XX.

Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Columbia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this family...