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Saldanha to Santa Marta: Local economies in SA and Colombia

The local economy in the city of Santa Marta in Colombia shows that a combination of getting some of the basics right while developing new ways of driving sustainable livelihoods can keep moving us in the right direction.

Mum was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle... now I'm leaving Bradford to follow in her footsteps

Marina Chapman claimed she grew up in the company of white-faced capuchins in the wilds of Colombia after being kidnapped and abandoned by people traffickers when she was four years old.

'My mum was raised by monkeys - now I've quit my UK life to live in the jungle'

Vanessa Forero: 'My mum was raised by monkeys – I'm not worried about snakes in my jungle kitchen'

The daughter of Marina Chapman – who says she lived with capuchins as a child – has returned to her mother's jungle home

Woman raised by monkeys now - jungle and brothel to housewife in Bradford

Marina Chapman set up a new life and started a family after moving to England - but claims as a child she was abducted and raised by capuchins in the Colombian jungle

Mum raised by monkeys turned heads swinging from trees on daughter's school pickup

Vanessa Forero had a unique upbringing thanks to her mum Marina Chapman's harrowing childhood - where she claims she was abducted and left to live in the jungle with monkeys

'My mum was raised by monkeys – I'm not worried about snakes in my jungle kitchen'

When the world went into lockdown during the Covid panic of 2020, Vanessa Forero was in Colombia, visiting the mountain village of Minca in the north-east of the country. Back home, she composes music for the advertising industry and had just put in an offer on a flat in Brighton but, she explains via video call from South America, “because this is a very sacred mountain and the indigenous people at the top are very protected, there’s only one road into the village, and they closed it”.

'My mum was raised by monkeys - now I've quit my life in Bradford to live in the jungle too'

Vanessa Forero's mum Marina Chapman had a bizarre and harrowing upbringing after being kidnapped, sold to trafficking gangs and abandoned in a Colombian rainforest where she claims to have been raised by monkeys

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