Beyond Bogotá : diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia / Garry Leech

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Entering La macarena; my detention -- My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran nightmare -- The Panama invasion; Colombia's two faces-- generosity and greed; indigenous villages and oil in Ecuador -- Welcome to Farclandia; Commander Simon Trinidad and the rebel perspective; a meeting with Erika, a teenage FARC guerrilla; Geraldo Rivera visits the rebel safe haven -- Investigating plan Colombia; AUC commander Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective; a body in a hole -- The displayed in Barranca; Gregorio and the landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder in Puerto Asis -- 9/11 and the was on terror; detained by Carlos Castaño's paramilitaries; the battle for Saravena, Colombia's "little Sarajevo" -- Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of The Chocó: the Bellavista tragedy; the plight of the indigenous Embera -- The Plan Patriota offensive; the new coca pl;ant; the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum -- Mining multinationals and human rights; the displacement of Tabaco; indigenous massacres in La Guajira and Nariño -- My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena -- Jungle rendezvous with FARC commander Raúl Reyes; the prospects for peace.