Abstract
This chapter examines the widespread view of geography as one of the principal causes of political violence in Colombia. It engages, in particular, with the trope of abandonment and the representation of the Putumayo as a landscape of fear throughout recent war reporting on the activities of the FARC and Paramilitaries. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the macabre in contemporary journalism on the Putumayo, and connects this to similar images from the period of the Rubber Boom.
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