Category: Colombia Context

Backgrounders about Colombia, and how it works – or doesn’t – drawn from my context journalism and years of living here.

Down and out in Bogotá

Stories from street people, with sadness and hope.

A visit to a Colombia’s most abandoned region, in the conflict zone of the Chocó.

Road accidents are Colombia’s biggest killer. But road safety is a joke.

Review of Roberto Saviano’s shocking exposé of cocaine finance.

A visit to Tumaco, the Pacific coastal city which is anything but peaceful

Organised drug gangs or ‘people’s armies’ which support communities? In Colombia it’s hard to tell.

Colombia’s mule train drivers – arrieros – had it tough.

For centuries wealth Colombians travelled carried in a chair strapped to a porter’s back. Here’s how.

A humorous look at driving in Colombia’s capital

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