Alfredo Molano Bravo,Aviva Chomsky,Daniel Bland,Lance Selfa,Mabel GonzÃ¡lez Bustelo
â€œThis book is proof that todayâ€™s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isnâ€™t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that â€˜the way to understand wasnâ€™t to study people but to listen to them.â€™ The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombiaâ€™s pain in a language that has more colors than the rainbow.â€â€”Eduardo Galeano, author of ,Upside Down, and ,Open Veins of Latin America,â€œThe people whose stories Molano tells are not social activists. They do not provide political or structural explanations of their lives; they do not tell stories of coming to consciousness. Yet, together, their stories add up to a powerful analysis of todayâ€™s Colombia and should indeed inspire US readers to challenge the US policies that continue to kill, impoverish and displace the people of Colombia.â€â€”From the foreword by Aviva Chomsky,Here in their own words are the stories of the ,desterrados,, or â€œdispossessedâ€â€”the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government.,These gripping stories show the human face of those who suffer the effects of the US â€œPlan Colombiaâ€ and of a state that serves the interests of wealthy landlords instead of the poor.,Acclaimed journalist ,Alfredo Molano, is a columnist for the newspaper ,El Espectador, in Colombia. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of ,Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen,.
Nonfiction
The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia