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The crash of the U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in to the Colombian jungle on February 13, 2003, set off some incidents that, five years later, would bring three Southern American countries on the collision course toward battle, pit a giant government builder against its company - the U.S. federal government - and catapult a 40-year-old guerrilla military to the international level among the most active and successful terrorist organizations on earth. Hostage Country uses the players in this international theatre where lives interweave across a chaotic and dangerous chessboard. While at first the case were a one-dimensional kidnapping of three American contractors that could play out in backdoor negotiations, as many possessed before, the paradigm transfer that had taken over Washington after 9/11 made impossible any such path to win the liberty of the hostages. This is the tale of Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell, and Marc Gonsalves, three People in the usa who visited be employed by the U.S. government's ill-fought "Conflict on Drugs" and crash-landed into their worst headache, five years in captivity of the FARC rebel Army. It's the tale of Colombian presidential applicant Ingrid Betancourt, poster child for all your prisoners in Colombia. It's the story of commercial malfeasance by Northrop Grumman, one of the greatest defense contractors in the us. It's the story of the paradigm transfer that switched poor Colombian guerrillas in to the biggest medication mafia on earth and gained them a dominant position on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. This is also a remarkable expose about the way that civilian soldiers have become the key players in covert wars that travel under the radar of the American people. It's the tale of the U.S. government's ambivalence pertaining to victims who don't have to be tallied on the nightly reports. It's the tale of fragmented federal government factions that refuse to interact, and of foreign-policy blunders that put federal government contracts above North american lives. It's the tale of lives unraveling, of left behind women and children, and of feuding people. And it is a revealing fact about the devastating inability of the battle on drugs that began back 1970.
