Mar 24, 2020
Before the Corona virus reached Colombia, President Duque and
his political patron, former president Alvaro Uribe, were in danger
of drowning in the scandal engulfing them.
To keep it brief, and Adriaan Alsema of Colombia Reports will
explain this further in the podcast, there is the very real
possibility that Duque...
Mar 17, 2020
Elizabeth Dickinson has been Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia since 2019. Her work centers around armed conflict dynamics in the country and the implementation of the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas. Previously a journalist, Elizabeth first reported from Colombia...
Mar 10, 2020
"You write the books that you want to read," Matt Rendell tells me in our conversation on Episode 315 of the Colombia Calling podcast. Well, I wish I could have written his latest book entitled: "Colombia es Pasión! The Generation of Racing cyclists who Changed their Nation and the Tour de France," out in all...
Mar 3, 2020
Colombia finds herself at a crossroads at the moment as to where directives in the country should focus their efforts in order to best evolve industries here and become a main player on the world stage. The production of medicinal cannabis could well represent a major boom for growers in Colombia and the people at the...