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Isaac Herzog also tells Davos that Gaza’s population is ‘entrenched in network of terror’. Plus, Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice every hour

In Bogatá, a brewery founded by former Farc members has become a cultural hub teaching visitors about Colombia’s violent history and road to reconciliation

All U.S.-bound immigrants pay close attention to policy pronouncements uttered by American leaders. This determines who comes and when.

With post-conflict financing after the 2016 Peace Accord with FARC, ex-combatants are brewing an exceptional craft beer in Bogotá's Teusaquillo neighborhood.

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More than five years after Colombia's peace deal was signed, efforts to reincorporate ex-rebels continue.

The ex-Farians are betting on a nonviolent, democratic and equitable society with their project La Trocha. By Zenaida Espinosa Cabrera and Stephania

With friends like Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica moving oceans of global migrants to the U.S. southern border, who needs enemies?

Trouble brewing for Colombia’s fragile peace deal as Covid hits rehabilitation projects The pandemic has dealt a further blow to efforts to reintegrate ex-Farc fighters into mainstream society Ex-Farc fighter Alexander Monroy brewing beer Credit: La Trocha Five years ago, Alexander Monroy was an urban militant living clandestinely on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá. He was a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), then the country’s most powerful lef...

“Hello, Papi, I am in Brazil.”  A text message I received sitting in my home office after nearly a month of silence signified Victor Arellano’s nine-month battle had just been won. Arellano escaped Venezuela with a bullet in his spine, fleeing across violent and treacherous terrains, to have a chance of survival in a place providing no guarantees of a better life. Early last year, when the pandemic first began its lethal assault upon the world, Arellano, a 30-year-old gay man, was walkin...