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Country of bullets : chronicles of war / Juanita León ; translated by Guillermo Bleichmar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- León, Juanita, 1970-
- Standardized Title:
- País de plomo. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Colombia--History--21st century--Anecdotes.
- Colombia.
- Civil war--Colombia--History--21st century--Anecdotes.
- Civil war.
- Colombia--Politics and government--1974---Anecdotes.
- Colombia--Social conditions--21st century--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Mary Roldán
- Prologue / by Alma Guillermoprieto
- Roberto Mira can't sleep : the mass displacement from Peque
- Oswaldo's sad life : the taking of Barranca
- A long agony : the subtle effects of war
- The boys of Urabá and their banana rap : the battle for Urabá
- Caquetania : the land of the FARC
- The brave people of Cauca : civil resistance in Colombia's war
- The steady hand of Captain Niño : experiments in democratic security
- Betrayal in Segovia : living with the paramilitaries
- The needle in the haystack : how the Army broke the siege of the FARC
- The tell-tale finger of Napoleón Santanilla : a mass arrest in Cartagena del Chairá
- "We are all paramilitaries" : Córdoba, birthplace of the paramilitary project
- Like dogs : the tragedy of the kidnapped.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Spanish by Aguilar as País de plomo: Crónicas de guerra"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780826347671
- 0826347673
- OCLC:
- 361947875
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