Garry Leech

Garry Leech is an independent journalist and author of numerous books, including Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia and Killing Peace: Colombia’s Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention. He also teaches international politics at Cape Breton University.

 

 

Books by Garry Leech

The FARC

The FARC

The Longest Insurgency

Garry Leech

To many — the Colombian, U.S. and the E.U. governments among them — the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is no more than a terrorist organization. Moreover, they claim that the FARC is only engaged in criminal activities and no longer maintains an ideology. But does this tell the whole story? Is it possible to engage in armed revolutionary struggle in order to achieve political and ideological objectives without perpetrating acts of terrorism? As the U.N.’s special… (more information)