Andres Otalvaro

Bundesverband Netwerke von migrantischen Organisationen

“Fortress Europe” has evolved into a biopolitical and necropolitical space where the bodies of migrants are subjected to extreme racialization, discrimination, and the systematic production of vulnerabilities. This space is characterized by the use of sophisticated technologies and devices—both analog and digital, such as biometrics—that determine...

El siglo XXI arranca con crisis y desafíos. Las prioridades políticas oscilan entre la redefinición de lo social, lo común y lo humano; el fortalecimiento de los mercados transnacionalizados y del mundo financiero al servicio del capital. La política social juega un papel importante en este escenario de redefiniciones, fortalecimientos, luchas y ne...

La escritora Andrea Wulf ofrece una nueva, bien nutrida y, sin embargo, no poco problemática biografía de Alexander von Humboldt.2 La obra ha recibido incontables aclamaciones por parte de la crítica y los medios internacionales, así como importantes premios, incluyendo el mismo Science Book Price que la Royal Society le otorgó como obra ganadora e...

Se analiza la significación histórica de los diarios de viaje de Francisco de Miranda en los que se consigna su paso por el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico. Tras posicionar brevemente a Miranda en la historiografía, se describe su ruta alemana del liberalismo temprano, que cobra relevancia para los estudios actuales de historia cultural y social. Se...

The following document has the purpose to present different conceptions and constituting elements of the social policy developed in Latin America, in particular in Venezuela during the past century. Thus, some key features are offered to outline a new paradigm of social policy relevant for the present historic-cultural, politic-institutional and so...

The Unión Patriótica (Patriotic Union, UP) was a Colombian political movement that emerged in the middle of the 1980s as a civil alternative to the political forces when peace negotiations under the government of Belisario Betancur took place. Since then PU leaders and militants have been targeted and over 5,000 have been murdered by army men, para...

Throughout the nineteenth century, liberal and conservative forces battled for power in Colombia, waging a number of civil wars in a struggle for control of the political institutions and territorial dominion. Between 1899 and 1902 they engaged in an especially cruel and prolonged conflict which would go down in history as the “Thousand Days' War.”

In November 1928 a strike broke out in the banana plantation region of Magdalena, Colombia, as almost 30,000 workers and peasants called for better labor and living conditions. The United Fruit Company (UFC) exercised a powerful monopoly over the department of Magdalena, controlling production and commercialization. In support of the UFC the Colomb...

Forty‐five years of conservative hegemony ended in 1930 when Enrique Olaya Herrera won the presidential elections in Colombia and the Liberal Party assumed control over the state apparatus after decades of political exclusion. The electoral victory was the origin of a new and especially violent period for Colombian society, culminating in the tragi...

The insurrection of the Comuneros (common and poor people) was a crucial political episode during the last decades of the colonial period in the territories known now as Colombia. It centered around the quest for social freedom and better living conditions in response to the oppressive economic and political apparatus the Spanish empire imposed on...

En Venezuela, en el seno de la Revolución Bolivariana, la Fuerza Armada Nacional se convierte en una de las principales organizaciones con capacidad para adelantar los objetivos de ese proyecto nacional. En este sentido, los militares tienen un papel político que cumplir. Lo anterior ha implicado, desde la llegada del presidente Hugo Chávez al pode...