Published: April 12, 2012
Words: 42,270 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452488615

Short description

The cafeteros in Colombia get forced into growing coca after the bottom drops out of the coffee market. The guerrillas get involved and then all hell breaks loose when the military gets wind of it and tries to force them out. It is told from the eyes of a nineteen-year-old girl who hires a coyote to bring her across the Arizona border after her entire town and family are decimated by bloodshed.

Extended description

The very day I finished Swiss Chocolate I was so supercharged with creativity and emotion, I sat down and wrote El Aguila in just three months. It is about the cafeteros in Colombia who get forced into growing coca after the bottom drops out of the coffee market. The guerrillas get involved and then all hell breaks loose when the military gets wind of it and tries to force them out. It is told from the eyes of a nineteen-year-old girl who hires a coyote to bring her across the Arizona border after her entire town and family are decimated by heartbreaking bloodshed.

My ex-wife is Colombian, and I spent a summer down there with her family. Her father is a successful cafetero who owns a finca high in the Andes, just above the town of El Aguila. I worked on the farm and busted my ass from sunup until sundown, learning the fine art of coffee farming.

Tags

drugs, drug lords, coffee, illegal aliens, farmers, colombia, guerillas, cafeteros, domestics, el aguila

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Videos

Colombian Guerrillas are Ambushed by Army
Recent footage of a small boat carrying drugs and weapons coming from venezuela (where FARC has settled terrorist camps) and how it is ambushed by a Colombian Army platoon which had done intelligence operations to intercept narco-terrorists in that area.

Reviews

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Review by: Sandra Thomas on May 01, 2012 :
What a journey James takes you on. From page one to the finish your are transported into the Colombian countryside. The characters are very well developed and the story flows seamlessly. You will be transfixed as the story unfolds. Thanks for writing such a terrific book.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: heather akridge on April 29, 2012 :
Call me stupid, but I really did not understand the horror of the politics in Colombia to the every day coffee farmer or his everyday laborer until I read James Weil’s “El Aguila.” The book really reels you in. I read the whole thing in one 4-hour sitting. I could not put it down. It changed me forever. This eloquent novel is incredibly well researched. I found that out from the Colombian immigrant that manages the property I am moving on to (a 26 acre farm). I asked him if any of his family had been caught up in this. He told me that he had lost all of them. I was heartbroken and gave him a hug. I knew I could never return his losses. They are too many to count. This book should be required reading for high school and college Social Studies students. It is not only a very well written piece of literature; it is also an excellent description of how complex the issues are. The everyday person of Colombia could do nothing, in my opinion, to survive this situation. They have NO WHERE to live the honest hard working life they yearn for. When you read it, you will see what I mean. Your view of illegal immigrants will be forever changed, and you will wonder why your government did not tell you honestly what the situation was when you were a young person. I don’t know about your friends, but all the people I partied with would have boycotted cocaine and started a company selling coffee for higher prices to help the good Colombian people retake their land and live a good, honest life. Seriously, if you are not Colombian, you can not understand the issues in Colombia unless you read this book. It should be required reading.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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