The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia

“Here in their own words are the stories of desterrados, or "dispossessed," the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part by U.S. aid to the Colombian government.… Alfredo Molano isn’t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realized that “the way to understand wasn’t to study people but to listen to them.” The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia’s pain, in a language that has more colors than the rainbow.”
—Eduardo Galeano, author of Open Veins of Latin America

“The people whose stories Molano tells are not social activists. They do not provide political or structural explanations of their lives; they do not tell stories of coming to consciousness. Yet together their stories add up to a powerful analysis of today's Colombia, and should indeed inspire U.S. readers to challenge the U.S. policies that continue to kill, impoverish, and displace the people of Colombia.”
—From the foreword by Aviva Chomsky