After finishing and enjoying Gabriel García Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, I would like to learn more about Colombian history. Any suggestions? In this case, my Spanish knowledge isn't sufficient for what I'd need to read even a children's history book, I think.
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***Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—from the Jungles to the Streets*** by Toby Muse.
***Cocaine Nation*** by Thomas Feiling
***Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug*** by Paul Gootenberg
Just kidding (though they are all amazing books) try instead
**The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself** by David Bushnell. it the most easily accessible and understandable book on how the country developed and has maintained its democratic system in spite fo the challenges of the cartels.