La oposición política (review)
The chapters that touch the twentieth century are also sure-footed. Separated by more than a century though they are, the two aperturas can be usefully compared. Colombia was too remote, too poor and too peculiarly politicized itself for the Spanish civil war to have had much of an impact, and here Bushnell gives us an elegant lesson in not, in the Spanish saying, asking for pears from the elm-tree.