It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total peace.” But ...

Sr. Diana Herrera Castañeda still remembers those tense weekends from her childhood in Bogotá. "It was the time of Pablo Escobar," Herrera said. "I was about 9 years old. On Fridays, Saturdays and ...

María Álvarez (not her real name) is a devout Catholic. She was relieved last year when the Ismael Ruiz gang, an offshoot of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), set up operations in her ...

Chemistry teacher María Intencipa misses the good old days — last year — when her small school in rural Colombia was sheltered from the artificial intelligence revolution by its remoteness. José ...

Edna Matta-Camacho remembers being a very inquisitive girl who used to open radios or hair dryers with a screwdriver to find out how they worked. Occasionally, she would break things in the process, ...

I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with a social movement the Peaceful Process of Reconciliation and integration of the Alta Montaña, to explore practices of peacebuilding in rural Colombia. I use a ...

Grassroots activists and international groups work to protect high-altitude wetlands Drought leads to water rationing in Bogota and power cuts in Ecuador Nurseries in Quito and Guatavita replant ...

We write in advance of the 78th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the “Committee”) and its review of Colombia. This submission focuses on issues of poverty and ...

Natural Gas (NG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) are considered as modern fuels particularly in the urban and rural areas in developing countries. In Colombia, approximately 6.5 million people, ...