“It's a guerrilla war from within": in Colombia, the war in Cauca undermines President Gustavo Petro's peace plans.
“It's a guerrilla war from within": in Colombia, the war in Cauca undermines President Gustavo Petro's peace plans. The southwest of the country is experiencing a resurgence of tension, which is likely to be exacerbated by the assassination of “Fito”, one of the presumed leaders of Farc dissidents. In Cauca, the Indigenous Guard is trying to protect the territory from fighting. Link to the article
The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs
Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety. Link to the article
The Pico arrived
What remains to be said about the Carnival of Barranquilla. Colombia's most important festival has already been shown in a thousand and one ways. It is hard to find an original angle, an eye-popping photograph, a challenging testimony or an unpublished story. It's hard, I say, but every year the media land on la arenosa with the faith of finding it all, like someone looking for a treasure without a map. Link to the article
Riding NY
In New York, everything is available around the clock. This luxury is made possible by bicycle couriers who cover the huge distances and whose efforts have been celebrated during the pandemic. Most of them are illegal immigrants from Latin America. We talk about their fight for better working conditions. Link to the article
The African journey behind the masks of the Barranquilla Carnival.
The African journey behind the masks of the Barranquilla Carnival.
The unexpected coca crisis.
Llorente (Colombia) (AFP) - Since the drug traffickers vanished, Carlos can't find anyone to buy at a good price the lumps of coca paste that pile up in his house. In the past, he would have received a lot of money for them, but an unsuspected downturn in the drug economy has these farmers in Colombia in crisis.
When digital nomads come to town.
Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they’re being priced out.
The global potato
How agricultural subsidies, local idiosyncrasies and climate change are driving farmers around the world into crisis.
farmers around the world into crisis. Research from three countries on two continents.
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Chuchuri Aba Mukira
Chuchuri Aba Mukira (Chuchuri el primer hombre) Es una obra de teatro producida por el colectivo embera bakata donde se cuenta el mito de la creación del hombre según la cosmogonia embera Katio, de Bagadó Chocó.
Chuchuri Aba Mukira (Chuchuri the first man) is a theater play produced by the Embera Bakata collective that tells the myth of the creation of man according to the Embera Katio cosmogony, from Bagadó Chocó.
