{"product_id":"9781931859172","title":"The Dispossessed","description":"Author: Alfredo Molano\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781931859172\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Apr 2005\u003cbr\u003ePages: 220 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is proof that today's Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn't a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that 'the way to understand wasn't to study people but to listen to them.' The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia's pain in a language that has more colors than the rainbow.\"-Eduardo Galeano, author of \u003ci\u003eUpside Down\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The people whose stories Molano tells are not social activists. They do not provide political or structural explanations of their lives; they do not tell stories of coming to consciousness. Yet, together, their stories add up to a powerful analysis of today's Colombia and should indeed inspire US readers to challenge the US policies that continue to kill, impoverish and displace the people of Colombia.\"-From the foreword by Aviva Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in their own words are the stories of the \u003ci\u003edesterrados\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"dispossessed\"-the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese gripping stories show the human face of those who suffer the effects of the US \"Plan Colombia\" and of a state that serves the interests of wealthy landlords instead of the poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed journalist \u003cb\u003eAlfredo Molano\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for the newspaper \u003ci\u003eEl Espectador\u003c\/i\u003e in Colombia. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLoyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925044117662,"sku":"ING-9781931859172","price":31.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781931859172.jpg?v=1782958138","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781931859172","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}