Book Review: There Are No Dead Here
Book Review: There Are No Dead Here
By
Adriana La Rotta
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno tells the story of three individuals who heroically investigated Colombia’s paramilitary groups.
This article is adapted from Americas Quarterly's print issue on Venezuela after Maduro
In 1993, the death of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar radically shifted the nature of the drug conflict in Colombia. Right-wing paramilitary groups — with the complicity of regional strongmen and their allies in the military — displaced thousands of farmers and the entire population of towns in an effort to clear out Marxist rebels , but also to establish...
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