May 26, 2020
In our final episode of this three-part series with journalist Nadja Drost on crossing the Darien Gap, we bring the conversation back to the article Drost wrote for California Sunday magazine in April 2020. We discuss her experiences on the trail, the physical toll the journey took on her and delve into the extreme...
May 19, 2020
Picking up where we left off in Part 1, Canadian journalist
Nadja Drost continues her tale of travel alongside desperate
migrants from all over the world in their hopeful quest of reaching
the United States. At times, this does not make for easy
listening.
We discuss the realities of the crossing through the Darien...
May 12, 2020
In what is a three-part series on the Colombia Calling podcast, we'll be exploring the realities - warts and all - of crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama. Canadian journalist Nadja Drost made the crossing in 2019 and her excellent piece came out in the California Sunday Magazine in April 2020. It makes for a...
May 5, 2020
Both a successful Judge and a Barrister in the UK, Sarah Lucy Cooper's life could have taken an extremely different course were foreigners permitted to practice law in Colombia. However, as we learn in Episode 323 of the Colombia Calling podcast, her 1990 introduction to Colombia defined the course she took in her...