The Armed Self-Defense of the Peasantry
The damage caused by the armed political violence that ravaged the country for 15 years is enormous. The aftermath of the internal war is felt most dramatically among the population that lived in the areas directly involved in the conflict, but it also manifests in diverse and complex areas of civic life, in the changes produced in the State and in the deployment of its Armed Forces, in the emergence of a new national political landscape, and in new behaviors and cultural patterns where the use of force as a means of resolving various problems has become common sense among large segments of the population, etc. (Excerpt from introduction). Published in February 1995.