{"id":5781,"date":"2011-01-24T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/magazine\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:47:13","slug":"hostage-nation-wins-wola-duke-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/magazine\/2011\/01\/24\/hostage-nation-wins-wola-duke-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostage Nation wins WOLA-Duke Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left;margin: 0 10px 10px 0;width: 214px;text-align: center;font-size: smaller;font-weight: bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/magazine\/files\/2011\/01\/hostage-nation.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of Hostage Nation with photo of men holding guns\" title=\"hostage-nation\" width=\"214\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/magazine\/files\/2011\/01\/hostage-nation.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/magazine\/files\/2011\/01\/hostage-nation-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Duke University have selected <em>Hostage Nation: Colombia&#8217;s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs<\/em> (Knopf, 2010) as the winner of the third annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the winning book&#8212;Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero&#8212;were honored at a special reception in the Biddle Rare Book Room on December 7, where they were presented with a $1,000 cash award. <\/p>\n<p>WOLA, a human rights research and advocacy group established in 1974, and Duke University created the prize to honor the best current, non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy and social justice in contemporary Latin America. In addition to the Duke University Libraries&#8217; Archive for Human Rights, the Duke Human Rights Center and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies co-sponsor the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Duke University have selected Hostage Nation: Colombia&#8217;s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs (Knopf, 2010) as the winner of the third annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. 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