By Alvaro Uribe Velez
It’s one of many nice, unforeseen turnaround tales in smooth background: only a decade in the past, Colombia was once considered as a “failed state,” besieged through megalomaniacal drug kingpins, ruthless terrorist teams, and abominable poverty. yet on the grounds that 2002, it's been dramatically remodeled right into a way more peaceable, strong glossy democracy with a promising destiny. Now, the fellow who led the transformation, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez, bargains the untold tale of the way, at huge, immense own threat, he refused to simply accept Colombia’s perilous prestige quo.
tremendous beautiful, No misplaced Causes finds how President Uribe significantly weakened the neo-terrorist workforce, the FARC, which held Colombia captive and prompted the brutal homicide of his father. It relates the gripping account of ways President Uribe staged the bold (and cold) jungle rescue of Ingrid Betancourt in 2008, and finally restored the rule of thumb of legislations around the state. It additionally explores sensible classes of hands-on management—relevant to either political and company leaders—and offers an exciting behind-the-scenes examine news-making US international affairs and not prior to mentioned information and dealings with numerous international leaders.
not like the other presidential memoir, No misplaced Causes isn't just a compelling tale of management, yet an epic, heart-racing account of the way bravery and desire gave a failing kingdom a brighter future.
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