Beyond Bogotá : diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia / Garry Leech.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leech, Garry M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Colombia.

Drug control.

Drug traffic--Economic aspects.

Drug traffic.

Colombia.

Drug control--United States.

United States.

Colombia--Foreign relations--United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Colombia.

Drug traffic--Economic aspects--Colombia.

Physical Description:

xi, 268 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2009]

Contents:

Entering La macarena; my detention

My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran nightmare

The Panama invasion; Colombia's two faces

generosity and greed; indigenous villages and oil in Ecuador

Welcome to Farclandia; Commander Simon Trinidad and the rebel perspective; a meeting with Erika, a teenage FARC guerrilla; Geraldo Rivera visits the rebel safe haven

Investigating plan Colombia; AUC commander Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective; a body in a hole

The displayed in Barranca; Gregorio and the landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder in Puerto Asis

9/11 and the was on terror; detained by Carlos Castaño's paramilitaries; the battle for Saravena, Colombia's "little Sarajevo"

Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of The Chocó: the Bellavista tragedy; the plight of the indigenous Embera

The Plan Patriota offensive; the new coca pl;ant; the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum

Mining multinationals and human rights; the displacement of Tabaco; indigenous massacres in La Guajira and Nariño

My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena

Jungle rendezvous with FARC commander Raúl Reyes; the prospects for peace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807061459

080706145X

OCLC:

212016036