Media Find a New Man Who Will ‘Save’ Colombia—de la Espriella Style

FAIR—In their book Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror: US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia, scholars Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle expose the whole US-backed war on drugs in Colombia for what it is: a war for the control of the drug trade and an excuse for US militarization. As Villar and Cottle write, the 1980s—heyday of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel—“saw the…