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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
by Mark Bowden  Publisher Comments Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos. In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark...
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The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
by Alfredo Molano Publisher Comments "This book is proof that today's Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn't a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that the way to understand wasn't to study people but to listen to them.'The testimonies...
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Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: The Peace Process of Colombian President Andres Pastrana
by Harvey Kline Book News Annotation Kline (political science, U. of Alabama) would rather have written about one of the successful negotiation efforts in Latin America, but believes an analysis of this failure might help avoid another in the future. He describes Pastrana's attempts to...
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News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International)
by Gabr Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors...
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My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
by Silvana Paternostro Publisher Comments A timely, evocative account of a reporter’s reckoning with her homeland’s volatile past Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young girl...
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Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770 -1835 (04 Edition)
by Aline Helg Publisher Comments Helg examines how Colombia developed the image of a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos, even though it has the third largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere....
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The Flight of the Condor: Stories of Violence and War from Colombia (Americas)
by Jennifer Ga Edwards Publisher Comments After decades of violence of all kinds, what remains are the stories. History is revised and debated, its protagonists bear witness, its writers ensure that all the suffering has not been in vain. These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and...
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Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a...
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Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000: Waging War and Negotiating Peace: Waging War and Negotiating Peace (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Charles W Bergquist Publisher Comments Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the...
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Walking Ghosts : Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (06 Edition)
by Steven Dudley Publisher Comments In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest...
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Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia
by Nicholas Coghlan Synopsis The personal account of a diplomat's three-year obsessions with Colombia that takes the reader on a geographical tour of the country, placing in stark contrast its immense diversity and beauty and the violence of the drug trade that mar it....
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that...
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My Life as a Revolutionary: Reflections of a Colombian Guerrillera (Voices of Latin American Life)
by Maria Eugen Perdomo Synopsis In My Life as a Revolutionary, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with...
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War in Colombia: Made in USA
by Sara Flounders Publisher Comments A voice is given to the Colombian resistance in this compilation of essays by those opposed to Plan Colombia, the disastrous fumigation campaign enacted as part of the war on drugs. Background is given on the origin and evolution of Plan Colombia and the...
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Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest (Penn State Press)
by J Michael Francis Publisher Comments In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. With roughly eight hundred Spaniards and numerous native carriers and black slaves...
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News of a Kidnapping
by Gabr Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated...
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Democracy in Latin America: Colombia and Venezuela
by Donald L Herman Publisher Comments Venezuela and Columbia both have two-sided structures of democracy. They combine the Liberal Democratic/Anglo-American model and the Latin American model. The first includes the procedural norms of free elections, citizen participation, individual rights,...
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 (Pitt Latin Amercian Studies)
by Marixa Lasso Publisher Comments This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to...
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Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002 (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traduao)
by Marco Palacios Publisher Comments Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia's long twentieth century, from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American...
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Location of Jobs in a Developing Metropolis: Patterns of Growth in Bogota & Cali, Colombia
by Kyu Sik Lee Publisher Comments Kyu here discusses new statistics on employment location in Bogota and Cali, Colombia through analysis of a survey questionnaire answered by sample firms in these cities, and presents econometric studies of the determinants of business location....
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