Günter Mertins
Who governs Colombia? Socio-economic and social-structural consequences of the economies of violence.
Pages 176 – 190

An enormous number of publications about the different types of organized violence in Colombia already exists (drug-mafia, guerilla, paramilitaries). This article focuses on the macro- and microeconomic consequences of these criminal organizations in rural and urban areas as well as in the corresponding spatial-structural components, especially in the regional and local interaction fields/"controlled" areas. For a long time the aims of the guerrilla organizations have been oriented by Marxist ideologies. Meanwhile they can be interpreted in the sense of the "new" war economies.


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