Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia
Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia
$39.42
- Paperback
268 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
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 Bogota, 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 Bogota is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia’s largest …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807061480 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0807061484 |
| Author: | Garry Leech |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press (MA) |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 268 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 137mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
Eye-opening … excellent reportage–highly recommended for would-be journalists as well as those interested in geopolitics.–Kirkus Reviews “In this remarkable saga, Garry Leech conveys brilliantly and with vivid insight the magical qualities of this rich and tortured land, and the struggles and torment of its people.”–Noam Chomsky
“That havoc within Colombia is portrayed with angry passion by the determined Garry Leech, that now rare beast in the jungle of journalism prepared to put his own life at the service of the truth… . A remarkable and captivating personal account of the drug war that unfolds mostly in Colombia.–Gavin O’Toole, Latin American Review of Books
About The Author
Garry Leech
Garry Leech is an independent journalist and editor of Colombia Journal. For the past eight years his work has primarily focused on the US war on drugs and Colombia’s civil conflict. He is the author of several books including Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order(Zed Books, 2006) and Killing Peace: Colombia’s Conflict and the Failure of US Intervention (Inota, 2002). He also teaches international politics at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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