Born in 1976 in London, England, Richard McColl spent a large part of his formative childhood years moving from house to house about London, Portugal, France, Mexico and the USA. Following a brief career in British journalism, McColl became an expedition guide, social projects coordinator and freelance journalist in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru before settling in Colombia.
Colombia’s government has vastly understated the total number of people who have contracted the coronavirus, according to various sources including medical practitioners, the Inspector General and high-ranking members of the…
Colombia’s travel and tourism industry is no more, government efforts will aid only the few. The international 24-hour news channels engage us with cute visuals of wildlife reclaiming the streets…
Estela looks down at her hands and her eyes easily well up with tears. She has shed so many over the last 31 years regarding the whereabouts of her daughter,…
While April 1 at best seems an awkward date to have been chosen by members of Colombia’s conservative opposition for a march on the scourge of corruption, but, this is as…
The international and national press have been humming along contentedly this past week in the knowledge that the secretive yet media savvy FARC rebels are open to media presence at…
Maria’s terror at the hands of her captor ended when he committed suicide. Leonor is still receiving psychological treatment having endured years as a sex slave.
Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro is in London to receive an award for his administration’s environmental policies, a recognition that is in stark contrast to how he is perceived in Colombia’s…