Seven months after receiving death threats a TV cameraman in Colombia was shot dead. Yonni Steven Caicedo, who worked for TV Noticias and Más Noticias in Buenaventura, in the department of Valle del Cauca, fled the area after being threatened by the drug-financed paramilitary group Los Urabeños . He returned six months later and nine days ago (19 February) he was attacked by two gunmen, dying later...
s authors call on governments and international tribunals to give greater protection to education, and say the UN, regional peacekeepers and all sides in conflicts should refrain from using schools or universities for military purposes. In 24 countries, researchers found that armed forces – both state and non-state – used school buildings as bases, weapons caches, prisons and even torture chambers,...
Don Diego', but the man who turned him in says he is still waiting for the bounty Tito will never forget the night he learned that the FBI had put a $5m price on the head of Diego León Montoya Sánchez ("Don Diego"), the leader of what was then Colombia's most powerful drug cartel. As the newest name on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted, Montoya was second only to Osama bin Laden as America's most wanted....
ve spent more than 20 years working alongside those labeled as rebels, guerrillas, dictators, terrorists, freedom fighters and dissidents. I've witnessed equally intractable negotiations move beyond stalemate to producing agreements that actually stop the violence and put the warring parties on a path towards peace. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that in order to get Syrian leaders to consider...
s comments when he said: "Politicians only talk about drugs reform when they have left office." In 1986, the Conservative government took one of the most significant decisions on drugs policy in the last 25 years when we introduced a clean-needles policy to counter the problem of HIV being caused by shared needles. That was controversial at the time but HIV infection by this route came down dramatically...
s difficult for conservative candidates to move forward because inequality is such an entrenched issue," said Ana Quintana, a Latin America expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "And it's hard to implement free-market, institutional reforms when you need to make sure a significant portion of the population can get enough to eat." Latin America's right could once identify itself as pro-business...
s unique collections. The British public has responded en masse to the profound spiritual and aesthetic message expressed by the gold objects displayed in the museum. But now it is time to consider the ethical and political implications of that message: not as a relic of the distant past, but because it may contain some of the answers we desperately seek to the most relevant questions of our time....
24 January is is the Day of the Endangered Lawyer , a day when lawyers in Britain should take a moment to consider some of the dangerous environments fellow advocates are working in across the world. This is the third year this international day of awareness has been organised so that we can reflect on the physical threats and persecution colleagues face. This year the spotlight will shine on Colombia,...
disappeared' simply for doing their jobs," says Susi Bascon of PBI UK. "In Colombia alone, as many as 25 lawyers may be killed each year." There are a variety of ways that lawyers in countries that don't face such daily perils can help: sending fact-finding delegations to affected countries, assisting in the preparation of submissions to governments, and amicus curiae briefs, helping with the training...
s death, the city government took an "if you can't beat them, join them" stance. In February the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, issued a decree to promote the practice of graffiti in Bogotá as a form of artistic and cultural expression while at the same time defining surfaces that are off limits, including monuments and public buildings. With that blessing and sizeable city grants, selected street...
s PhD thesis. This would indeed have been negligent of me – but for the fact that my book was published in 2008 and their work was published three years later, in 2011. Does the Guardian now expect clairvoyance of historians? The book by Mahecha and Franky sounds important and worthy of your readers' attention. The same can hardly be said for the fact that I was unable to divine its findings before...
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settlement called Calamar in Colombia a group of about 40 indigenous people wearing no clothes and speaking a language no one could understand turned up on the doorstep of the local school. Who were they? Their dramatic arrival sparked something of a sensation in Colombia's media, concern from Calamar locals, and headaches for the government's indigenous affairs department in Bogota about what, if...
s time to say 'stop'," she says emphatically. The Iniciativa de Integracíon Sudamericana (Iirsa), the project to integrate infrastructure in South America, will link Brazil to the Pacific Ocean and branch out through the Amazon to connect Brazilian mines and agricultural companies to trade routes and power supplies. The proposals include more than 500 mega projects, including hydroelectric dams, highways,...
s oil wealth – had powered the resurgence of the Latin American left in the 21st century. With Chávez gone, the crowds returned again and again during the following weeks either to support or condemn his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who was always going to find it difficult to fill the huge political space left by his predecessor. As some clashes turned violent, there were a handful of deaths. But despite...
s still the smallest living tapir. Described in the Journal of Mammology, the scientists have named the new tapir Tapirus kabomani after the name for "tapir" in the local Paumari language: "Arabo kabomani." Tapirus kabomani , or the Kobomani tapir, is the fifth tapir found in the world and the first to be discovered since 1865. It is also the first mammal in the order Perissodactyla (which includes...
s police commissioner. "Organised crime, and its corrupting influence, is at work in every single country in Latin America." Just look at the news. In the autumn, police in Ecuador seized three tonnes of cocaine, ready to cross the Pacific. Soon after, half a tonne was intercepted in a tanker truck on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. On the heels of that discovery, 1.5 tonnes was intercepted in the...
men on the outside. Three years later she was kidnapped and held again, this time by the leftist militia that the fascists claimed to be fighting – the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or Farc . Then, in 2009, Bedoya emerged from this wind tunnel of violence and violation and – with resilience that defies imagination – became the voice of the many thousands of survivors and victims of...
s watchdog of public office has ordered the removal of Gustavo Petro, Bogota's left-leaning mayor, and banished him from politics for 15 years, deeming unconstitutional his behaviour in a 2012 showdown with private garbage collectors. Petro refused to accept the decision by Alejandro Ordonez, a conservative ally of the former president Alvaro Uribe, and called supporters into the streets. "I remain...
Paleontologists in Colombia have unearthed the fossil of an eight-metre-long marine reptile that lived 130 million years ago ...