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After Escobar — with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Game of Our Lives by Al Jazeera Media Network

Apr 5, 201831:11Sports & Recreation

In the 1980s and 90s, Colombian football was some of the best it had ever been. The price: near-total control by the country’s drug lords. This week, Goldblatt talks with fan and novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez about what...

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