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Prologue: The Land Before Names

Long before anyone called it Colombia, the earth here was a folding of mountains. The Andes, reaching their northern end, split into three fingers—the Cordilleras Occidental, Central, and Oriental—gripping valleys, rivers, and high, cold plains. In the time before memory, the Muisca people lived on the savannah of Bogotá, a high lake in the sky. They told a story of the Bachué, a woman who emerged from the lake holding a child, and when that child grew, they populated the earth. She taught them to farm, to weave, to honor the sun and the moon, and then, she turned into a snake and slipped back into the water.

VIII. The Miracle

7. The Rise of Guerrillas and Drug Cartels (1960s–1990s)

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