The US government has embarked on a propaganda offensive in Colombia, apparently trying to prop up President Ivan Duque, whose sagging power is endangering Washington’s interests. The Trump administration and…
Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting in Colombia over the past week, riding a wave of protest rolling across Latin America. But unlike some of the explicitly revolutionary…
I took a vacation with former FARC guerrillas, who are still considered terrorists by Uncle Sam despite ecotourism being their main occupation after a 2016 peace deal. The getaway began on…
Colombia is inhabited by 102 Indigenous peoples. We are the victorious survivors of a genocide that has not yet ended; we are still in a “conquest” that does not end.…
The Northern Antioquia Peace Bulletin is a grassroots initiative to provide a panoramic monthly report of the resurgence in violence in northern Antioquia and southern Cordoba, the implementation of the peace accords with FARC rebels,…
Medellin’s Flower Festival, the city’s most important cultural event of the year, has been ruined by the consumerism and the narco-culture. We are going to do something about this. The…
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…
Colombia’s new road map for development exposes the most vulnerable to government plans for aggressive exploitation of land and resources, ignoring inequality and the concerns of at-risk communities. Nearly $3…
Hotel Fontana Mar in Barranquilla can be found at 40th street with the 43rd. It’s diagonal to the Sena in a street full of lottery and fruit stands, and tiny…