Somos una nación herida

Abstract

This book, the product of Tufano's master's thesis, is composed of an introduction and three chapters that address a period from the 1920s to the early 1990s. The author delves into two negotiation processes between the guerrillas and the national government: those that occurred during the governments of Belisario Betancur (1982-1986) and Virgilio Barco (1986-1990). To do so, she proposes an analysis of the negotiations, distancing herself from classic and conventional readings that put domestic politics at the center, and proposing a perspective in which multiple actors and different historical conditions converge, which go beyond the government-armed group binomial. The author's aim is to emphasize political disputes, external conditions linked to international dynamics (especially the foreign policy of the United States) and peace policies. Additionally, the author argues that the most profound changes within the political regime have occurred within the framework of the peace negotiations. The author carries out a press review exercise, privileging Semana magazine (for the period 1984-1990) and secondary sources. Her interpretative framework emphasizes three aspects: the contextual level or correlation of forces, the international framework associated with the influence of US policies in the national context and a semantic one linked to the change in the ways and forms of naming.