One Hundred Years of War by Luis Belisario Becerra Jimenez - Book Review
One of the most well-known characters in contemporary Colombia is Luis Belisario Becerra Jimenez. A former guerrilla who fought together with the FARC from the 1980s, he went into exile and settled in Spain, living there for the next 25 years. He joined a range of artists, writers that have come to signify Colombia in the International Book Prize Festival in Bogota. This talk with him, originally published in Spanish, was translated into English by Paul Johnson. Why did you opt to write this? I thought it was intriguing to read about someone who had experienced what I had. He had a lot of respect for the guerilla groups which were combating the authorities. He said that the war was happening in a parallel to what had been happening in Spain, in the feeling that there were individuals who were killed by the authorities but people who joined the revolution didn't suffer such fates. It was these kind of problems that motivated me to write this book. Who are you? -This is the matter