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Colombia

Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a limpieza in Colombia by Michael T. Taussig

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March 2004, no. 259
Stephen Muecke reviews 'Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a limpieza in Colombia' by Michael T. Taussig

On the cover of Mick Taussig’s new book, video artist Juan Manuel Echavarria performs a rather clever metaphor for the disintegration of the state. A floral pottery platter with the legend Republica de Colombia para siempre (‘The Republic of Colombia for ever’) is progressively broken up until it is nothing but a pile of white powder: the state as drug cartel.

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