“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 that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia’s pain in a language that has more colors than the rainbow.”—Eduardo Galeano, author of Upside Down and Open Veins of Latin America
“The people whose stories Molano tells are not social activists. They do not provide political or structural explanations of their lives; they do not tell stories of coming to consciousness. Yet, together, their stories add up to a powerful analysis of today’s Colombia and should indeed inspire US readers to challenge the US policies that continue to kill, impoverish and displace the people of Colombia.”—From the foreword by Aviva Chomsky
Here in their own words are the stories of the desterrados, or “dispossessed”—the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government.
These gripping stories show the human face of those who suffer the effects of the US “Plan Colombia” and of a state that serves the interests of wealthy landlords instead of the poor.
Acclaimed journalist Alfredo Molano is a columnist for the newspaper El Espectador in Colombia. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen.

The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia

History

Chomsky, Aviva

Molano, Alfredo

Americas

Haymarket Books

Literature and Revolution

"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."-Mike Davis "Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."-Tariq Ali Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs- and can alter-our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life. William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems.

Literature And Revolution

Literature & Fiction

Trotsky, Léon

History & Criticism

Portraits of Mexicans and other Latin Americans who travel into and through the area surrounding the border between Mexico and the United States depict a world of low-paid workers, abused women, illegal immigrants, prisoners, and smugglers.

Espaldas mojadas -Historias de maquilas, coyotes y aduanas (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Panamericana Editorial

En mayo de 1964 comenzó la operación militar para recuperar la entonces llamada 'república independiente de Marquetalia', que desembocaría en la cruenta y larga guerra entre las Farc y el Estado colombiano, cuyas consecuencias políticas y sociales retumban aún. Con ocasión de los 50 años de la fundación de la guerrilla viva más antigua del continente, el escritor y sociólogo Alfredo Molano reconstruyó desde la historia y el periodismo los orígenes de las Farc. Inicialmente publicados en El Espectador, estos doce textos surgen de diferentes viajes hechos hasta recónditas regiones deColombia, donde acampa la verdadera historia del surgimiento de esta guerrilla, y de varias entrevistas del autor con los fundadores del grupo armado. A muy poco de que se firme la paz en Colombia, A lomo de mula constituye una mirada rigurosa y necesaria sobre el tema, en la pluma de uno de los más grandes conocedores del conflicto colombiano.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA text that reconstructs part of the history of 20th-century Colombia. In May of 1964, the military operation to recover the "independent republic of Marquetalia" began, which would lead to the long, bloody war between the FARC and the Colombian government, the political and social consequences of which are still being felt today. On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the longest-running active guerrilla group, writer and sociologist Alfredo Molano reconstructs the origins of the FARC using history and journalism. Initially published in El Espectador, these twelve texts arise from different journeys into the most remote corners of Colombia, where the true history of this guerrilla group’s emergence lies, and from several interviews the author conducted with the founders of the armed group. Just after the signing of the peace accord in Colombia, On the Mule’s Back is a rigorous, necessary look into the topic, by the pen of one of the most knowledgeable authorities on the Colombian conflict.

A lomo de mula / On the Mule's Back: Journeys to the Heart of the FARC: Viajes al corazon de las Farc (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Government

Aguilar]

Selva adentro: Una historia oral de la colonización del Guaviare (Spanish Edition)

Ancora Editores

El Tapón del Darién: Diario de una travesía (Spanish Edition)

El Sello Editorial

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