The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Columbia

Coghlan, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0773527877 / ISBN 13: 9780773527874

Editore: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON, 2004

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6-1/4" x 9-1/4", vii + 263pp. Sewn binding in black paper-covered boards. Jacket is lightly rubbed, shelf worn. Binding is square and tight, pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.

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• Titolo: The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Columbia
• Editore: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0773527877
• ISBN 13: 9780773527874
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Near Fine

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nicholas Coghlan, author of Far in the Waste Sudan and The Saddest Country, served in five Canadian embassies overseas before he was appointed Canada’s first resident ambassador to South Sudan. He lives on Salt Spring Island, bc.