A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.

Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs

History

Bruce, Victoria

Hayes, Karin

Botero, Jorge Enrique

Americas

KNOPF

Crónica que relata las intimidades del otro lado del conflicto armado en Colombia. Más allá de ser un libro primicia, Últimas noticias de la guerra es un reportaje novelado que muestra con crudo realismo la parte humana de los guerrilleros involucrados en el conflicto armado que vive Colombia. El autor acudiendo a géneros periodísticos como la crónica y la entrevista, narrados con estructura y lenguaje literario, nos transporta a la inhóspita selva donde viven insurgentes de carne y hueso que lamentablemente por fatales errores de uno y otro lado, de una historia desigual , están lejos de todo, casi sumergidos en un país imaginario. A través de la guerrillera Solangie, conocemos los crueles vericuetos de la guerra y la noticia que trae el libro: la vida naciendo en medio de la muerte. Al final las palabras de Tirofijo develan la trágica metáfora del país: un gobierno y unos alzados en armas intransigentes, y una sociedad civil anestesiada en los estertores de su propia supervivencia.

Ultimas noticias de la guerra (Spanish Edition)

Europe

Debate

Describes how Ricardo Palmera, who adopted the name Simâon Trinidad when he left an upper class life to join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, became the first Colombian guerrilla to be extradited to the United States.

El hombre de hierro (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Random House Mondadori

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