Volume 49, Number 15 · October 10, 2002
Confessions of a Killer
By Alma Guillermoprieto
Mi confesión:Carlos Castaño revela sus secretos
by Mauricio Aranguren Molina
Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 343 pp.,29,900 pesos; 10,900 pesos (paper)
A remarkable book has been published in Colombia, the country of perplexing and endless fratricidal violence. First available in local bookstores nationwide for the 2001–2002 Christmas season and now in its eleventh printing, it is the 'as told to' autobiography of Carlos Castaño, the man responsible for organizing, executing, or inspiring a good part of the twenty thousand or so politically motivated murders that have taken place in Colombia over the last ten years.
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