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Colombia : Inside the Labyrinth [Buy it!] | Jenny Pearce | USD 13.22 (Fri May 17 11:02:12 2024) | Abebooks | Book Haven | ISBN10: 0906156440, ISBN13: 9780906156445, [publisher: Latin America Bureau] Softcover Colombia is a country of dramatic and contradictory images. Officially it is a Latin American successs story , with steady growth, political stability and a large middle class. Yet it has become notorious for the activities of the so-called Medellin and Cali cartels and the violence surrounding the cocaine trade. Although credited with the region's longest lasting democracy, it has been the scene of extreme political and criminal violence which gives it the highest murder rate in the world. 328 pages. [Wellington, WLG, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1990] |