This brief book was initially written by its Colombian author in order to explain to a US American friend the roots of the complex situation of violence in Colombia.
However, it is actually addressed to the population living there, as if the author could not hold back a need to urge a people despised for centuries by their own plunderers (aristocracy of unscrupulous political leaders, immoral world market and ever increasing military expenditure - utterly useless) to recover their…