By Harvey F. Kline
This quantity files the efforts of 2 Colombian presidents to minimize political violence and convey extra reliable governance to their kingdom. either Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-90) and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1990-1994) attempted to finish various armed disturbances from quite a few quarters.
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To collect data for this book, I made four trips to Bogotá. The dates of the trips were (1) June 15August 1, 1991, (2) July 129, 1992, (3) May 17June 1, 1994, and (4) July 25August 2, 1995. The point of the first trip in 1991 was to study the constituent assembly, which was still meeting. In 1992 the negotiations with the Coordinadora Guerrillera Simón Bolívar were being emphasized; in 1994, the priority was on the drug and paramilitary groups. Although the 1995 trip was primarily to give some of the results of this research at the meeting of the Asociación de Colombianistas, I used the opportunity to collect recent publications related to the theme of this book and to reinterview several of the individuals who had already proved to be of great value.
9 Among the reasons for this decision was the Colombian leaders' fear of the institutions of a strong state (especially the armed forces and the police). Too many other Latin American countries had seen such institutions end elective governments. Also, Colombian leaders, primarily from the upper economic groups, did not want to raise taxes that a strong military and national police would necessitate; those taxes would necessarily come from their own economic sector. " Not constructing a national police force left effective power in local hands instead of delegating it to some far-off national government.
However, in some cases it has been shown that military officers were paid off by the drug leaders. S. aid to the military has been to fight drugs, including some US$65 million worth of equipment after the August 1989 assassination of Luis Carlos Galán. After it was alleged that the military was using these funds to fight guerrillas Page 16 rather than drug dealers, the latter task was given back to the national police in 1991. Since these changes, there have been tensions about the role the military is to play.