Bogota - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?
Controversial opinion, but "Narcos" on netflix actually does a great job explaining the complicated and violent history of Colombia during the rough years in the 90s. It is also nice to listen to in Spanish to work on your informal Colombian Spanish. - Mar 2025
Magdalena River of Dreams - May 2024
Books: Missionaries by Phil Klay. Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. TV shows: Wild District (Distrito Salvaje), Betty la Fea (the original Ugly Betty) - Aug 2023
Narcos is a good show to watch as well as Distro Salvaje. Any book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Feb 2021
Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels. - Jul 2020
Narcos (Colombians hate it, but watch it anyway), Embrace of the Serpent, and everything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nov 2018
Narcos *just don't mention it to any Colombians :-) - May 2018
Anything about the conflict, on Pablo Escobar, or by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Jun 2014
Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (specifically News of a Kidnapping, for a sense of how it was here just fifteen years ago). Also the books by the released hostages. - Aug 2010
Alvaro Uribe's biography. - Jun 2010
I don't know. I would look online for articles and blogs. - Jan 2010
Funny enough for all my countries that I investigate, I go to Realpostreports.com :) I never looked at a book for Colombia. - May 2008
