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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leech, Garry M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : Enfield : Beacon Press ; Publishers Group UK [distributor], [2010], ©2009.
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Table of 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.