Garry Leech

Beyond Bogota

Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

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Produktbeschreibung

Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike other Western reporters, most of whom rarely leave Bogotá, Leech learns the truth about conflicts and the U.S. war on drugs directly from the source: farmers, male and female guerrillas, union organizers, indigenous communities, and many others. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group, in August 2006. Drawing on unprecedented access to soldiers, guerrillas, paramilitaries, and peasants in conflict zones and cocaine-producing areas, Leech's documentary memoir is an epic tale of a journalist's search for meaning in the midst of violence and poverty. This compelling account provides fresh insights into U.S. foreign policy, the role of the media, and the plight of everyday Colombians caught in the middle of a brutal war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780807061480
• ISBN-10: 0807061484
• Artikelnr.: 26673537

Autorenporträt

Garry Leech

Inhaltsangabe

A note from the author
 
The First Hour: 10:00 a.m., August 16, 2006
Entering La Macarena; my detention
 
The Second Hour: 11:00 a.m., August 16, 2006
My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran
Nightmare
 
The Third Hour: 12:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
The Panama invasion; Colombia’s two faces—
generosity and greed; indigenous villages and
oil in Ecuador
 
The Fourth Hour: 1:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
Welcome to Farclandia; Commander Simón 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., August 16, 2006
Investigating Plan Colombia; AUC commander
Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective;
a body in a hole
 
The Sixth Hour: 3:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
The displaced in Barranca; Gregorio and the
landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder
in Puerto Asís
 
The Seventh Hour: 4:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
9/11 and the war on terror; detained by Carlos
Castaño’s paramilitaries; the battle for Saravena,
Colombia’s “Little Sarajevo”
 
The Eighth Hour: 5:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of
the Chocó; the Bellavista tragedy; the plight
of the indigenous Embera
 
The Ninth Hour: 6:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
The Plan Patriota offensive; the new coca plant;
the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan
Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum
 
The Tenth Hour: 7:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
Mining multinationals and human rights; the
displacement of Tabaco; indigenous massacres
in La Guajira and Nariño
 
The Eleventh Hour: 8:00 p.m., August 16, 2006
My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena
 
Epilogue: June 2007
Jungle rendezvous with FARC commander Raúl
Reyes; the prospects for peace
 
Timeline (1948–2007)
Acknowledgments
Index