New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Ballantine Books, c1995.

xv, 334 p. : il. ; 24 cm.

Acknowledgments. -- Map. -- Introduction. -- Editor's note. -- Roadblock. The Retén. -- Checkbook diary. The national bank of Rotan. -- Notebook number 1. Contigo soy feliz. -- Notebook number 2. Andaluz. -- Scraps. --

Tomado de la solapa: "In this remarkable no-holds-barred account of eleven moths in captivity in Colombia, Thomas R. Hargrove describes one of the most terrible ordeals a human being can endure. Written on checks, in notebooks, and on scraps of paper while the author was held captive, Long March to Freedom is Tom Hargrove's dairy, a searing story of a hostage experience. In September 1994, American agricultural expert Tom Hargrove was stopped at a roadblock outside Cali, Colombia, by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). When they saw his I.D. card and the initials "CIAT" (from the Spanish abbreviation for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture). Tom was in trouble: these self-styled followers of Che Guevara support their revolution by kidnapping people for ransom- and by hiring themselves out to the drug cartels of Colombia. The barely literate rebels were not about to let a "CIA" man slip through their net. Despite Tom's explanations, he was taken away to begin eleven months' harrowing captivity. The guerrillas demanded a six-million-dollar ransom for his release. While his wife and children scrambled to obtain this impossible amount, Tom was marched from camp to camp to elude the Colombian armed forces, whose attacks on rebel strongholds leave few survivors. And of course, murder at the hands of guerrillas is an everyday event in Colombia. Subsisting on meager food that was haphazardly offered, Tom lost fifty pounds, but the worst torment came from his near total isolation: never kept with another prisoner, he could talk only to his captors. Told in his own desperate words, written while never knowing if he would live to share it with another human being, Long March to Freedom is, first and foremost, the dairy of an American hero." --

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