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The saddest country
The saddest country: on assignment in Colombia
Nicholas Coghlan
Publisher: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
ISBN: 0773527877   DDC: 986.10635  

Notes:

Includes index.

Prologue: a day in the life -- Blood Canyon: Barrancabermeja -- Down
the Magdalena River: Puerto Wilches, San Pablo, Simiti, 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.

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Dewey Class: 986.10635 -- General history of South America Colombia & Ecuador

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 263 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

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