No Lost Causes

by Álvaro Uribe Vélez

Book Overview

Besieged by drugs gangs, terrorists and poverty, Columbia was regarded as a failing state just a decade ago. But since 2002 it has been dramatically transformed into a far more peaceful, stable, modern democracy. This was in large part down the leadership of Alvaro Uribe Velez, Columbian president from 2002 to 2010. Velez reveals his personal untold story of how, at enormous personal risk, he enforced the battle on drugs and terror wrought by criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451413814
• ISBN13: 9780451413819
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher