Herbert Braun

Protests of Engagement: Dignity, False Love, and Self-Love in Mexico during 1968

A few thousand young Mexicans were standing together in large groups in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco in downtown Mexico City to remember the massacre which had brought the student movement of 1968 to a sudden end ten years before. Many turned their heads upward to the balcony of a residential building that faced the plaza to hear Carlos Monsivais, a well-known intellectual who had savored the protests, tell them that they “no longer saw the state as a tyrannical and omnipresent father.” Still another ten years later, many of them, and others as well, read the words of Hugo Hiriart, a promising young journalist in 1968, who claimed that the students had “dared to lead in a frontal and uncompromising opposition to the paternal and authoritarian Mexican state.”

La mentalidad de las elites sobre la violencia en Colombia (1936-1949).

A traves de este texto, Dario incursiona en el campo fascinante pero ambiguo y elusivo de la Historia, el de la Historia de las Mentalidades de amplio desarrollo en otros confines pero que apenas se abre paso entre nosotros y este es uno de los grandes logros del libro; el esfuerzo por aplicar unas posturas metodologicas y unas categorias no siempre bien definidas y entorno a las cuales compites los saberes de las Ciencias Sociales, en un espacio y un tiempo especificos originales y practicamente irrepetibles.

Our Guerrillas, Our Sidewalks: A Journey into the Violence of Colombia

Part I: 1988 Chapter 1: Taking Chapter 2: Adapting Chapter 3: Staying Chapter 4: Negotiating Chapter 5: Terrorizing Chapter 6: Dying Chapter 7: Returning Chapter 8: Living Part II: 1994 Chapter 9: Silencing Part III: 2002 Chapter 10: Drinking