Silvana Paternostro

Biography

Silvana Paternostro is the author of two books, most recently My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind. Her other work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Newsweek, Paris Review, and Bomb, where she is a contributing editor. She was an associate producer of Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic film about Che Guevara.

See Work

CRITICISM / Spring 2011

Her Silence, Her Voice

By Silvana Paternostro

When Ingrid Betancourt was taken hostage on February 23, 2002, by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC as this fifty-year-old nationalist and peasant movement is better known, she was a feisty, outspoken, and rather...