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The article analyzes the recurring environmental conflict associated with the products derived from logging. It takes as reference the confrontations for the monopoly of the cinchonas in western Santander and southern Bolivar, specifically from the perspective of the struggle between the federal and state political elites that took sides in the conflict for extraction starred by foreign executives allied to each of these sides during a time of transition between political regimes. This irregular war from 1878-1882 prevented each opponent to have full control of empty lands and the compliance of their contracts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of the victors' public investments and the editorial efforts of the defeated ones after the Thousand Days' War to present their history versions and reaffirm the importance of the processes of peace and national reconciliation. In order to do this, it is demonstrated the importance that the inclusion of some of these speeches and literary representations in textbooks had for elementary and advanced reading courses in local schools according to the official program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]