Adriana E. Ramírez

Adriana E. Ramírez's new nonfiction book "The Violence" is built around oral histories of life in Colombia through the 20th century.

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Adriana Ramírez opens her family album to tell the story of “La Violencia en Colombia”

A vivid portrait of the civil conflict of the 1940s and 1950s — and how it opened the way for the armed groups that still control parts of the country

Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.

A family’s experience is bounded and warped by the violence and instability that overtook Colombia in the last half of the 20th century.

In the acknowledgment section of her new book, “The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War,” Adriana E. shares a maxim from her dad: “Family...

Other countries have nicknames for their rough periods. But nobody is quite as direct as Colombians, who dispense with any pretensions by simply calling the decade from 1948 to 1958 exactly what it was: La Violencia.

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“One of my party tricks is that I can pull out a map of the world and name all 197 countries,” says Adriana E. Ramírez,...