- Colombia on the brink: There Goes the Neighborhood (1998)
- Foreign Affairs academic Magazine article
- Author: Michael Shifter
- Uses quote from former president Misael Pastrana Barrero: “Last year I said we were on the verge of the abyss. Today, I think we are in it.”
- Ineffective, incompetent leadership within Colombia has no chance of containing FARC threat
- Drugs, turmoil, violence in Colombia translates to the United States’ idleness
- 3 American human rights workers murdered by FARC
- * Says peace will be a mighty obstacle, yet Colombia has “…defied apocalyptic forecasts before and may do so again.” (19)
- Deal was not in existence yet, this text gave me a sense of peril and a hopeless feel to the issue
- Nowadays they are trying to become a political movement, displayed here as a terrorist, socialist group
- Mentions the NLA (National Liberation Army)
- Does not answer whether it compromises peace for justice, rather attacks the idea of peace even being realistic due to how bad the conditions were.