Film critic Monica Castillo says that U.S. films depicting Colombia's devastating drug war tend to focus on the high-stakes world of narcotrafficking — on powerful gangsters like Pablo Escobar.

Some movies, like Triple Frontier, highlight the role Americans play in this conflict and comment on how Americans see themselves in relation to the War on Drugs.

If war does start again in Colombia, the big hope is that at least this time it won’t involve children. “Monos” is now showing at the Tower Theater in Miami’s Little Havana, 1508 SW 8th St.

And that is what the world sees now of Colombia. Colombia’s spirit, once buried by war, has risen again. In the last 10 years, international investment is up over 100 percent. Tourism 240 percent.

A scathing and thoroughly one-sided look at the failing U.S. drug war in Colombia, Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy’s documentary refuses to portray the other side as anything other than ...

The Colombian Temper. The clash at Praga, hot, fierce, and fought to the bitter end, was typical of this strange, confused, nearly meaningless war.