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(This report by La Cola de Rata is part of their series entitled Especial Tierra de Resistentes, which can be viewed here)   Edith Lucía Taborda Guevara is an anxious woman with dark curly hair and a gentle stride. However, if her name could be summarized in a word, it would be strength. She speaks […]

Medellín, Colombia, Jul 26 (EFE).- A fashion collection made as an ode to the Colombian Pacific shined on the Colombianmoda catwalk in Medellín on Tuesday. The “Feliza” (Happy) collection, presented by designer Diego Guarnizo in the Plaza Mayor convention center, was the outcome of a project that used fashion to preserve traditions and extol “the …

Communicators from across the country said they occupy a particularly precarious place in Colombia’s press corps as threats to their reporting and safety come from many sides.

URL copied to clipboard Noel Amilcar Chapues Guevara and Julio Ricardo Solarte Ascuntar are speaking from the lands of the Ishu Awá reservation, close to the Colombian Pacific Coast. It was here, in the region of Nariño, on the border with Putumayo, that their grandparents arrived 30 years ago after fleeing violence. Today, recording themselves on their cell phones, the Indigenous Awá leaders tell the tale of how the pandemic has blighted the Awá and left them isolated and desperate for...