Articles by Lerber Dimas Vásquez

April 15, 2024

Oligarchic defects of democracy in Colombia

Lerber Dimas Vásquez

Colombians are growing increasingly frustrated at their government's failure to produce progressive advances. This failure signals a peculiar democratic deficit: oligarchic modes of rule. Jan Boesten, Lerber Dimas, Daniel Llanos Ramírez and William Mesa argue that oligarchy offers new insights into Latin America's democratic delinquents

Lerber Dimas Vásquez

Anthropologist, Universidad del Magdalena / Master's Student, Anthropology of the Americas, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Lerber researches social, economic, political and violence dynamics in the Sierra Nevada.

His background is in transitional justice, peacebuilding, organised crime, urban violence, human rights and international human rights law.

He is a member of the Berlin Group for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies at the Latin America Institute, Free University of Berlin.

Lerber is a member of the Scientific Committee for International Researchers of the Navegando publishing house in Brazil.

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