Fighting Monsters in the Abyss: The Second Administration of Colombian President lvaro Uribe Vlez, 20062010 [Hardcover]

Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (20062010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nations violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system

Fighting Monsters in the Abyssoffers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President ?lvaro Uribe V?lez (20062010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin Americas most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier Colombian presidents and yet written as a stand-alone study, Colombia expert Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising successes and setbacks in Uribes response to this existential threat.

InState Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 19861994, Kline documented and explained the limited successes of Presidents Virgilio Barco and C?sar Gaviria in putting down the revolutionaries while also confronting challenges from drug dealers and paramilitary groups. The following president Andr?s Pastrana then boldly changed course and attempted resolution through negotiations, an effort whose failure Kline examines inChronicle of a Failure Foretold. In his third book,Showing Teeth to the Dragons, Kline shows how in his first term President ?lvaro Uribe V?lez more successfully quelled the insurrection through a combination of negotiated demobilization of paramilitary groups and using US backing to mount more effective military campaigns.

Kline opensFighting Monsters in the Abysswith a recap of Colombias complex political history, the development of Marxist rebels and paramilitary groups and their respective relationships to the narcotics trade, and the attempts of successive Colombian presidents to resolve the crisis. Kline next examines the ability of the Colombian government to reimpose rule in rebel-controlled territories as well as the challenges of admilƒ+