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Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953

by Mary Roldán

Published: 2002

Publisher: Duke University Press

Regions: Colombia
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A regional study of La Violencia in Antioquia, challenging the conventional narrative that the conflict was purely partisan. Roldán demonstrates that violence was shaped by ethnic, racial, and regional tensions, and that the state itself was a key perpetrator. Winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History.