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

"Beyond Bogota is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group, in August of 2006. He recalls nearly thirty years of travel and work in Latin America while weaving in a historical context of the region and on-the-ground...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leech, Garry M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Drug control > Colombia.
Drug control > United States.
Drug traffic > Economic aspects > Colombia.
Lutte antidrogue > Colombie.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Drogues > Trafic > Aspect économique > Colombie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Drug control
Drug traffic > Economic aspects
Diplomatic relations
Colombia > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Colombia.
Colombie > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Colombie.
Colombia
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 war 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 plant; 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.

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