Category: Dispatches
June 22, 2015 > Daniela Castro
The Roots of Colombia’s Peace Talk Crisis
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, could end more than 50 years of internal armed conflict. […] Read More >
May 28, 2015 > Leonardo Goi
Colombia’s Peace Process: Shaken, Not Dead
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, called off on Friday a unilateral ceasefire in effect since Dec. 20, after an air raid by the Colombian […] Read More >
May 10, 2015 > Camila Osorio
“We Have to Construct a Taboo Around Killing”: Antanas Mockus On Colombia’s Peace Process
Antanas Mockus is one of the most influential figures in Colombian politics. He has been mayor of Bogotá twice, and a presidential candidate three times. He is mostly remembered for […] Read More >
April 30, 2015 > Levi Vonk
Migrants on Activist Pilgrimage Dodge Police, Gangs Across Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Ciudad Tecún Umán is sweltering. All of the town’s households and its handful of ramshackle cantinas still use wood-burning stoves, their sweaty attendants braving the compounded afternoon […] Read More >
April 20, 2015 > Camila Osorio
Violentology: An Interview with Photojournalist Stephen Ferry
Stephen Ferry is an American photographer who has captured dangerous and tragic scenes of the Colombian armed conflict for twelve years. Ferry published a collection of his and his Colombian […] Read More >
April 20, 2015 > Max Serjeant
In Nicaragua, A Conflict Over Mining Near the World’s Second-Largest Rainforest
RANCHO GRANDE, Nicaragua — Father Pablo Espinosa looks down pensively, taking his time to think as he speaks. “In the history of Nicaragua there is not one town that has […] Read More >
March 22, 2015 > Kamilia Lahrichi
Argentina Lags Behind in Signing Landmark Anti-Tobacco Treaty
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – As countries worldwide move toward reducing tobacco use among their citizens, Argentina remains one of seven U.N. member states — and the only one […] Read More >
March 12, 2015 > Leonardo Goi
Colombia Halts Air Raids on FARC Rebels, But Steps Remain on Path to Lasting Ceasefire
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — In a fifteen-minute long speech delivered on Tuesday evening, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the country’s armed forces will stop, for the next month, their […] Read More >
March 2, 2015 > David Adler
The Fight for Mexico City’s Future
MEXICO CITY — Around the corner from two taco stands and a small cantina, in an otherwise nondescript section of Mexico City’s Doctores neighborhood, there is an unmarked storefront known […] Read More >
March 1, 2015 > Declan McGarvey
José Mujica: The “World’s Poorest President” Set to Safeguard His Legacy of Change
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Colonia del Sacramento underwent turbulent change in its early history. A strategic port founded by conquistadors at the mouth of the world’s widest river, the […] Read More >