A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia's Invisible War

by June Erlick

Book Overview

To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogot , it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptions--outsiders' fears versus insiders' realities--drew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogot for a year's stay in 2005. She wanted to understand how the city she first came to love in 1975 has made such strides toward building a peaceful civil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722974
• ISBN13: 9780292722972
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"