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The saddest country : on assignment in Colombia / Nicholas Coghlan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-.
- Coghlan, Nicholas.
- Insurgency--Colombia.
- Insurgency.
- Drug traffic--Colombia.
- Drug traffic.
- Colombia--Description and travel.
- Colombia.
- Colombia--Politics and government--1974-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nicholas Coghlan arrived in Bogota in 1997. A political officer for the Canadian government, it was his responsibility to report on Colombia's complex civil conflict, lobby the Colombian authorities on human rights, and provide visible moral support and other assistance to the victims of the war. Soon after he arrived it became apparent that he could not fulfill these functions from the relative peace and security of Bogota and he found himself traveling to remote and sometimes dangerous locations rarely visited by outsiders - the coca fields of Putumayo, the swamps of the Darien Gap, the vast savannahs of the Llano - meeting with everyone from impoverished inhabitants of the barrios to guerrilla leaders, from human rights activists to military commanders.
- Contents:
- Blood Canyon : Barrancabermeja
- Down the Magdalena River : Puerto Wilches, San Pablo, Simiti, Santa Rosa
- Old Colombia : Mompox, El Banco, Cartagena, and Old Providence
- Banana country : Turbo, Apartado, San Jose, Chigorodo, and Pavarando
- Returning to Darien : the Cuenca del Cacarica
- Quibdo, the Medio Atrato, and the Pacific Coast
- In the fields of the drug lords
- Despatches from the Colombian elections : July 1997 to August 1998
- To the Llanos : Villavicencio, Puerto Inirida, and El Tuparro
- The Royal Ways, the Nevados, and Armero
- Putumayo : coke is it
- Bogota
- News of a kidnapping
- Lunch with Lucia
- Just another day at the office.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86289-8
- 9786612862892
- 0-7735-7221-X
- OCLC:
- 180773032
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