Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

Garry Leech, independent journalist and editor of Colombia Journal, has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike other Western journalists who never leave Bogotá and adhere to the government’s line about what’s happening in the country, Leech seeks the unofficial story about what life is like for the Colombian people who are living in conflict zones. Leech’s compelling memoir, Beyond Bogotá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist, is framed around the11 hours he was held captive by the FARC, Colombia’s largest leftist guerrilla insurgency, in August of 2006.