Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, HidroItuango, has made international headlines — and for all the wrong reasons. From its inception, the $4.5 billion-dollar dam built near Ituango, Antioquia, on the Cauca…
Hugo George is one of the hundreds of social leaders who have been murdered in Colombia during its peace process. He was also my friend. I met Hugo on a…
The once bustling streets of the Remolino neighborhood of Puerto Valdivia, a small town next to the Cauca River in the Antioquia province in northern Colombia, were empty. It had…
The corruption-ridden construction of Hidroituango, Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, is not just threatening to bankrupt Medellin; it has destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of campesinos living in communities hours…