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

โœ Scribed by Bruce, Victoria; Hayes, Karin

Book ID
108297759
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307593580

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โœฆ Synopsis

A blistering journalistic exposรฉ: 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...

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