The saddest country [[electronic resource] ] : on assignment in Colombia / / Nicholas Coghlan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783759703321
• Autore: Coghlan Nicholas <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montréal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-86289-8; 9786612862892; 0-7735-7221-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 986.106/35
• Soggetti: Insurgency - Colombia; Drug traffic - Colombia; Colombia Description and travel; Colombia Politics and government 1974-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Blood Canyon : Barrancabermeja -- Down the Magdalena River : Puerto Wilches, San Pablo, Simití, Santa Rosa -- Old Colombia : Mompox, El Banco, Cartagena, and Old Providence -- Banana country : Turbo, Apartadó, San José, Chigorodó, and Pavarandó -- Returning to Darién : the Cuenca del Cacarica -- Quibdó, the Medio Atrato, and the Pacific Coast -- In the fields of the drug lords -- Despatches from the Colombian elections : July 1997 to August 1998 -- To the Llanos : Villavicencio, Puerto Inírida, and El Tuparro -- The Royal Ways, the Nevados, and Armero -- Putumayo : coke is it -- Bogotá -- News of a kidnapping -- Lunch with Lucía -- Just another day at the office.
• Sommario/riassunto: Nicholas Coghlan arrived in Bogota in 1997. A political officer for the Canadian government, it was his responsibility to report on Colombia's complex civil conflict, lobby the Colombian authorities on human rights, and provide visible moral support and other assistance to the victims of the war. Soon after he arrived it became apparent that he could not fulfill these functions from the relative peace and security of Bogota and he found himself traveling to remote and sometimes dangerous locations rarely visited by outsiders - the coca fields of ; Putumayo, the swamps of the Darien Gap, the vast savannahs of the Llano - meeting with everyone from impoverished inhabitants of the barrios to guerrilla leaders, from human rights activists to military commanders.