Silvana Paternostro, “My Colombian War”
Award-winning Colombian-born journalist Silvana Paternostro visits Zócalo to give us an intimate portrait of Colombia’s forty-year-old war between a left wing rebel army that kidnaps, a right-wing paramilitary that massacres, a drug-fueled economy that permeates both armed movements and a government that receives the third largest U.S. military aid package. Paternostro grew up in Colombia as a member of the landed elite before moving to the United States in the late seventies. In the years she was away, the country of her privileged childhood has become the world’s biggest producer …
