Bogota - Post Report Question and Answers

Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?

Magdalena River of Dreams - May 2024


Books: Missionaries by Phil Klay. Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. TV shows: Wild District (Distrito Salvaje), Betty la Fea (the original Ugly Betty) - Aug 2023


Narcos is a good show to watch as well as Distro Salvaje. Any book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Feb 2021


Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels. - Jul 2020


Narcos (Colombians hate it, but watch it anyway), Embrace of the Serpent, and everything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nov 2018


Narcos *just don't mention it to any Colombians :-) - May 2018


Anything about the conflict, on Pablo Escobar, or by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Jun 2014


Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (specifically News of a Kidnapping, for a sense of how it was here just fifteen years ago). Also the books by the released hostages. - Aug 2010


Alvaro Uribe's biography. - Jun 2010


I don't know. I would look online for articles and blogs. - Jan 2010


Funny enough for all my countries that I investigate, I go to Realpostreports.com :) I never looked at a book for Colombia. - May 2008


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