My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind

A Colombian-born journalist furnishes an eyewitness acount of her homeland's recent volatile history, detailing her privileged upbringing in Barranquilla, Colombia; the drug trade, social inequities, political upheaval, and violence that wrack the country; and the repercussions of this complex, ongoing conflict on the lives of Colombia's ordinary citizens. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.