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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Garry Leech's new book
Garry's book includes a section on Colombia's coal region and our campaign over the past few years---
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Avi
Hi,
A Body
in a Hole
Excerpt from Beyond Bogotá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia (Beacon Press, 2009)
In August 2006, independent journalist Garry Leech was detained by FARC guerrillas and held at gunpoint for eleven hours on a farm in La Macarena National Park in eastern Colombia. This detention frames Leech’s new book Beyond Bogotá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia. During each passing hour of his detention, Leech reflects back on his first trips to Latin America and his years reporting on the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia. In this excerpt from the book, he recalls a visit to Putumayo in February 2001 to investigate Plan Colombia’s initial aerial fumigations.
Read the full article at:
http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia300.htm
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