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More terrible than death : massacres, drugs, and America's war in Colombia / Robin Kirk.
Van Pelt Library HV5840.C7 K57 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirk, Robin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug traffic--Colombia.
- Drug traffic.
- Cocaine industry--Colombia.
- Cocaine industry.
- Military relations.
- Colombia.
- Human rights--Colombia.
- Human rights.
- Drug control--Colombia.
- Drug control.
- United States--Military relations--Colombia.
- United States.
- Colombia--Military relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- lst edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this compelling and disturbing narrative, writer and human rights investigator Kirk maps the social, political, economic, and human devastation wrought by the drug war in Colombia. She offers an insider's analysis of the political realities that shape the expanding war on drugs and the growing U.S. military presence there.
- Contents:
- 1 Josue 1
- 2 Basilisco 13
- 3 The Alchemist 35
- 4 The Hippopotamus 71
- 5 A Perfect Circle 99
- 6 The Devil's Table 141
- 7 Pataquiva's Lament 179
- 8 The Magic Kingdom 223
- 9 La Berraquera 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1586481045
- OCLC:
- 50773179
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