Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia. Steven Dudley

Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia



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Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Page: 268
ISBN: 041593303X, 9780415933032

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Dudley has written for many national periodicals, and his dispatches from Colombia have been heard on National Public Radio. His five years in that war-, drug-, and assassin-torn country are fodder for this extremely revealing volume of reportage. Infinite patience and concentration will be needed to navigate the author's encyclopedic exposition. Careful readers, though, are rewarded with a cast of characters so colorful that if the venue were shifted to the U.S., they could only reside in New Orleans. A country with one-seventh the population of the U.S. experiences some 30,000 murders per year, 75 political assassinations per week, and 10 kidnappings per day. (Kidnapping in order to elicit funding for political fronts has been perfected to a high art.) So deadly are the country's politics that the author had to flee the country and still fears for his life. But he was impelled to chronicle the story anyway in this thrilling and informative read. Includes impromptu photographs that assist in humanizing the myriad rebels, guerrillas, drug kingpins, and politicians who populate this quagmire. Allen WeaklandCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Review

An authoritative work of modern history which is also a nail-biting page-turner. -- Jon Lee Anderson An intense, hair-raising account of a complex conflict that leaves the reader on the edge of his seat. -- Juan Forero, Andean regional bureau chief for The New York TimesIn Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley provides an engrossing, sometimes hair-raising account of Colombia's bloody, overlapping conflicts. -- Roane Carey, The NationNo one else has written this history so well and with so much first-hand access to its protagonists. -- Robin Kirk, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch-Americas Division and author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in ColombiaSteven Dudley’s haunting account of the rise and blood-soaked fall of Colombia’s Patriotic Union party is essential reading. -- Joseph Contreras, Latin America Regional Editor, Newsweek



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