Books
Below is a list of recommended books about the Colombian armed conflict and US intervention.
Hostage Nation: Colombia’s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs by Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero (2010)
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP by James J. Brittain (2010)
Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech (2010)
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Gary Brozek (2010)
Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia by Jasmin Hristov (2009)
Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War by Virginia M. Bouvier (2009)
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia by Winifred Tate (2007)
Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton (2006)
Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order by Garry Leech (2006)
Between Legitimacy and Violence: A history of Colombia (1875-2002) by Marcos Palacios (2006)
Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation by Hugh O’Shaughnessy and Sue Branford (2005)
Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia by Alfredo Molano (2005)
America’s Other War: Terrorizing Colombia by Doug Stokes (2005)
Colombia: A Brutal History by Geoff Simons (2004)
My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig (2004)
Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom by Alfredo Molano (2004)
War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri Lévy (2004)
Colombia and the United States: War, Terrorism and Destabilization by Mario Murillo and Jesus Rey Avirama (2004)
Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia by Steven Dudley (2004)
War in Colombia: Made in U.S.A. edited by Rebeca Toledo, Teresa Gutierrez, Sara
Flounders and Andy McInerney (2003)
Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America: Peru, Colombia, Mexico by James Rochlin
(2003)
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza by Michael Taussig (2003)
Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War by Grace Livingstone (2003)
More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Deaths, and America’s War in Colombia by Robin Kirk (2003)
Driven By Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia by Russell Crandall (2002)
Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia by Nazih Richani (2002)
Out of War: True Stories from the Front Lines of the Children’s Movement for Peace in Colombia by Sara Cameron (2001)
The Sixth Division: Military Paramilitary and U.S. Policy in Colombia by Human Rights Watch (2001)
The Colombian Civil War by Bert Ruiz (2001)
Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt (2001)
Violence in Colombia 1990-2000: Waging War and Negotiating Peace edited by Charles Bergquist, et al (2001)
Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society by Frank Safford and Marco Palacios (2001)
Bandits, Peasants, and Politics: The Case of “La Violencia” in Colombia by Gonzalo Sánchez and Donny Meertens (2001)
The Heart of the War in Colombia by Constanza Ardila Galvis (2000)
The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America by Donna Lee Van Cott (2000)
State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia 1986-1994 by Harvey F. Kline (1999)
War Without Quarter: Colombia and International Humanitarian Law by Human Rights Watch (1998)
The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L. Clawson and Rensselaer W. Lee III (1998)
Colombia: The Politics of Reforming the State edited by Eduardo Posado-Carbo (1998)
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall (1998)
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez (1998)
Colombia and the United States: Narcotics Traffic and a Failed Foreign Policy by Robert W. Drexler (1997)
Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy by Javier Giraldo S.J.(1996)
Colombia’s Killer Networks: The Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States by Human Rights Watch (1996)
Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia by Peter Wade (1995)
Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia by Francisco E. Thoumi (1995)
Generation Under Fire: Children and Violence in Colombia by Human Rights Watch (1994)
The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy by Ana Carrigan (1993)
The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself by David Bushnell (1993)
Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence by Stephen J. Randall (1992)
Colombia: Political Murder and Reform by Juan Mendez, (1992)
Democracy in Colombia: Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare by Jorge P. Osterling (1989)
Out of Print – But worth searching for in libraries, used bookstores or Amazon.com
Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective edited by Charles Bergquist et al (1992)
Our Guerrillas, Our Sidewalks: A Journey into the Violence of Colombia by Herbert Braun (1994)
Drugs and Foreign Policy: A Critical Review edited by Raphael Perl (1994)