Colombia Politics has compiled a short list of our favourite books published in the last couple of years.
Colombia Politics has compiled a short list of our favourite books published in the last couple of years.
If Colombia is a land with no memory as Gabriela Dale argued on Colombia Politics last week, then it is the perfect setting for Michael Jacobs´ meditation on the power of human recall.
The Robber of Memories is a spell-binding journey to the source of the majestic Magdalena river that takes us through the land of García Márquez, into the paramilitary strongholds of the Magdelena Medio and finally up deep into the mountainous FARC-held territories of Huila, near San Agustin. Read more…
Guest piece by Miguel M. Benito
Que los políticos escriban memorias tras pasar por distintos cargos públicos es bastante común en todo el mundo y suele ser una fuente de información útil para comprender y reconstruir el pasado. Además son un buen medio para la auto-reivindicación y para ajustar cuentas con enemigos y rivales. Memorias que pueden ser tan fascinantes como sesgadas y parciales. Pero las memorias son un género complicado en el que hay que saber leer entrelíneas y atender tanto a lo que se dice como a lo que se calla.
Love him or loath him, Colombia´s Ex-President Alvaro Uribe Vélez is without doubt the most important figure in the country´s recent political history.
No Lost Causes is a page-turner of a memoir, a whistle-stop tour through the political life of a man who even after leaving office continues to define Colombian politics. Read more…
Colombia Politics recently reviewed British author Tom Feiling´s excellent ´Short Walks from Bogotá´.
Feiling kindly agreed to a candid interview on his views and reflections on Colombia. See part one. Read more…
Colombia Politics recently reviewed British author Tom Feiling´s excellent ´Short Walks from Bogotá´.
Feiling kindly agreed to a candid interview on his views and reflections on Colombia. We are publishing this conversation in two parts. We hope you enjoy it. Read more…
Short Walks from Bogotá is a deeply political account of one man´s journey to the violent heart of modern, rural, Colombia. It is a travel book that transports the reader to an unreported world far away from Bogotá and Medellín, and far away from the well trodden backpacker route.
For many visitors, the pages of this book are as close as they will get to the tragedy of Colombia´s recent history. For this reason alone Feiling is an essential read. Read more…