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Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges by Timothy Lorek
University of North Carolina Press 2023. xxii + 317 pp (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0
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In September 2016, Colombia’s government and the leadership of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) achieved the unthinkable. After a four-year series of conversations and negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos (…)
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8 June 2024* The climb down of Humpty Dumpty what a relief! | Vijay Kumar
* India bestirred, a political era ends | L K Sharma
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