287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

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where there is a long colonial history going back to the 1500s and the Spanish conquistadores. And the great thing about this in terms of modern day social science is that some areas of what we now call Colombia were in fact governed by the Spanish, others were not. So you can ask the question, did that legacy of colonial domination in early Colombia in the 1500s, does it still manifest today?