Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia
ISBN: 9780773572218
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Insurgency -- Colombia; Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1974–; Human rights -- Colombia; Drug traffic -- Colombia;

The Saddest Country is the personal account of a diplomat's three-year obsession with Colombia. It takes the reader on a geographical tour of the country, placing in stark contrast the immense diversity and beauty of Colombia and the bloody civil war and the violence of the drug trade that mar it.

Coghlan Nicholas :

Nicholas Coghlan, author of The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia, is the former consul general in Cape Town (South Africa) for Canada. He left this post in 2005 to sail the South Atlantic and South Pacific with his wife on their 8-metre sloop, B


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