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Playing the Flute

by , on February 5, 2021

Oil spills in Colombia

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The General

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By Emma Reyes (1919?2003), a painter, from a letter written in 1969 to Germán Arciniegas, a historian and journalist. The Book of Emma Reyes, a memoir, will be published in…

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It’s Not How They Say It

by , on August 26, 2016

From an interview with a girl in a reintegration program for former child soldiers in Colombia.

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Upward Immobility

by , on May 26, 2016

Navigating Colombia's class-based estrato system

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Emerald Sea

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The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

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Guerrillas in the Mix

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From comments posted on YouTube about a rap video released in September by the Colombian guerrilla group FARC. The song describes their upcoming peace talks in Cuba and Norway with…

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Weekly Review

by , on July 8, 2008

Colombian military commandos infiltrated a settlement operated by the guerilla group FARC and freed 15 hostages, among them three U.S. contractors and the Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt. President George W.…

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Go before you die

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A road trip through the "new" Colombia

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Te amo Colombia

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The second time as FARC

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Weekly Review

by , on October 16, 2007

Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of…

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