Leech, Garry M.

Beyond Bogotá : diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia / Garry Leech. - Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 2008. - 268 p.: ill., maps.; 21cm.

Includes index.

The first hour: 10:a.m., August 16, 2006 / Entering La Macarena; my detention-- The second hour: 11:00a.m., / My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran Nightmare-- The third hour: 12:a.m. /The Panama invasion; Colombia's two faces-generosity and greed; indigenous villages and oil in Ecuador-- The fourth hour: 1:00 p.m.,/ Welcome to Farclandia Connander Simon Trinidad and the rebel perspective; a meeting with Erika, a teenage FARC guerrilla; Geraldo Rivera visits the rebel safe haven-- The fifth hour: 2:00 p.m., / Investigating Plan Colombia; AUC commander Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective; a body in a hole-- The sixth hour: 3:00 p.m. / The displaced in Barranca: Gregorio and the landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder in Puerto Asís-- he seventh hour: 4:00p.m./ 9/11 and the war on terror; detained by Carlos Castaño's paramilitaries; the batle for Saravena, Colombia's "Little Sarajevo"-- The eighth hour: 5:00p.m./ Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of the Chocó; the Bellavista tragedy; the plight of the indigenous Embera-- The ninth hour: 6:p.m./ The plan patriota offensive; the new coca plant; the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum-- The tenth hour: 7:p.m./ Mining multinationals and human rights; the displacement of Tabaco; indigenours massacres in La Guajira and Nariño-- The eleventh hour: 8:00p.m./ My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena.

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Drug control--Colombia.
Drug control--United States.
Drug traffic--Economic aspects--Colombia.


Colombia--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Colombia.
Control de las drogas--Colombia
Control de las drogas--Estados Unidos
Trafico de drogas--Aspectos económicos--Colombia
Colombia--Relaciones internacionales--Estados Unidos
Estados Unidos--Relaciones internacionales--Colombia

HV 5840 / L483b 2008