Aug 27, 2024
Nadya Ortiz is Colombia's first woman chess grandmaster. Hailing from humble origins in Ibague, chess became a conduit for her success. By succeeding in the chess world, she won a scholarship to study at university in Texas, later another one to go to Purdue and then by virtue of her excellence in computer science now...
Aug 20, 2024
Hallo and welcome to another episode of Colombia Calling - I’m
Emily Hart and this week I’ll be chatting to Nubia Rojas about
journalism at war – how journalists fell victim to, but also took
part in, Colombia’s civil conflict.
Nubia is a journalist and researcher who has worked on conflicts
across the world...
Aug 13, 2024
"From Ambition to Stagnation: the road ahead for Petro's
administration," is the title of a new report by Eitan Casaverde
and Sergio Guzman of Colombia Risk Analysis and this is what we are
discussing this week on the podcast.
There are questions that abound:
Is the Colombian system structured for radical change?
What...
Aug 6, 2024
The Latin American Review of Books – LatAmRoB – has been
publishing online continuously since 2005 as a small, independent
website based in the UK that reviews books and films. And we are
very fortunate to have founder Gavin O'Toole here on the Colombia
Calling podcast this week.
The Latin American Review of Books...