Tells the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution.
This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end Columbia's 50 year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims.