Hostage Nation by Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes with Jorge Enrique Botero (book trailer)

A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.

On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation.

With unprecedented access to the FARC's hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.

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• Hostage Nation
• Victoria Bruce
• Karin Hayes
• Jorge Enrique Botero
• War on Drugs
• Columbia
• Hostages
• Cocaine

[NinaSanta1]

Just walk down the streets of Colombia and ask somebody for one word that describes Farc... kidnapping, murdering, cocaine, land mines, children in their lines... these are the answers. The Kidnapping becomes into a business for them, if somebody negotiates and gives whatever they want. We are Colombian people and we don't negociate with terrorist .

The Farc is Narc-terrorist organizacion, and the "revolution" does not exist for them. The end is coming up and they know it... NO MORE FARC!