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In the main, studies of organized crime rely on police orjudicial sources, or the accounts of retired criminals and informants.In contrast, this study is based on five years of ethnographicfieldwork with Colombian drug traffickers (traquetos) in TheNetherlands and Colombia. By spending long hours in salsa bars,churches, prisons, and prostitution streets, the author has uncoveredthe social world of traquetos: how and why they get involved inillicit activities, the nature of their work, the manner in which theyrelate to one another, and lastly how they organize their businesses.

The result is a lively, theoretically grounded study that defiescommon cliches on `cartels' and leadership by legendaryMr Bigs. Instead, it highlights the complex, flexible, andheterogeneous nature of cocaine enterprises. This book will not only be valued by criminologists, socialscientists, drug researchers, policy makers, and organized crimescholars, but it will also be avidly read by those interested inColombia, in the problems of Latino immigrants in Europe, and inthe international cocaine business. ... Read more

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I have discovered in Jorge Ivan Fernandez, a new teller of travel tales in the rich tradition of Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin. His narrative is charged with the passion of a great adventuer as he writes of his experiences living among the Samburu tribe in the semi-desert of northern Kenya. These are adventures that are spiritual in all senses of the word. -Paul Bardwell ... Read more

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's oeuvre.

In a beautifully written examination, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his politics. For this updated edition, Bell-Villada adds new chapters on all of Garcia Marquez's fiction since 1988, from The General in His Labyrinth through Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account,News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about Garcia Marquez's biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available. ... Read more

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Doris Salcedo, a sculptor who lives and works in Bogota, Colombia, is a rising international star. This is a comprehensive monograph of her work and its humanitarian and political content. Her haunting sculptures and installations are painstakingly made from found objects left in the abandoned homes of missing people in Colombia - personal effects such as furniture or shoes which become symbols of a vanished existence, suggesting the desperation and silent violence of ongoing acts of inhumanity. ... Read more