Colombia

From silence, into the light

Over the last year and a half, the Colombian media outlet Casa Macondo has run a series of articles on accusations of sexual abuse in the Catholic church – and the ways...

This side of the bridge

Venezuelan women cross into Colombia for abortions they cannot legally have at home, only to find that this “right” is not always easy to reach In Venezuela, abortion remains a...

Mothers for hire

How Colombia has turned into a “paradise for reproductive tourism” We are used to discussing surrogacy in fairly abstract terms. If the neoliberal idea of us being nothing but self-interested...

Medellin: The politics of street art in Colombia’s second city

On a Medellín highway, a crass political banner exposes a fierce, ongoing visual war where spray-painted walls fight to memorialize the city's recently unearthed mass graves....

L’affaire Íngrid Betancourt

A Spanish review of a French documentary about Colombia In the early 2000s, l’affaire Íngrid Betancourt —the hostage-taking of a Colombian French dual national presidential candidate at the height of the 2002...

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