Playbill
August, 2001
It's the Latest, biggest, bloodiest and most doomed front in the fucked war on drugs. According to best estimates, 90 percent of all cocaine comes from Colombia. The United States recently allocated $1.3 billion--the bulk of it in military aid--to the Colombian government, which barely controls any part of the country. Such is the backdrop of Colombia: Land of Death, a grim travelog by director Barbet Schroeder(Barfly.) While on location for his new film, Our Lady of the Assassins, Schroeder wit...
