Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
Former FARC commanders Iván Márquez, Jesús Santrich and El Paisa have announced that they are rearming less than three years after signing a peace agreement with the State. Alfred Davies reports for BristoLatino on what this announcement might mean for peace in Colombia. The peace process in Colombia was dealt a severe blow at the end […]
BristoLatino politics editor Alfred Davies reports from The Road to Peace: Lessons from Colombia, a two-part interdisciplinary event hosted by the University of Bristol’s Global Insecurities Centre on 31 January 2019. Host Laura Hankin was joined by panellists Dr Andrei Gómez-Suarez and Gwen Burnyeat of UCL, who carefully unpicked the complexities of ending war and building […]
Ana Vallejo is a Colombian photographer based in Bogotá. Her project, Entre Nubes, focuses on San Germán, a makeshift neighbourhood in a National Park on the outskirts of Bogotá, where people internally displaced from various conflicts around Colombia have settled after finding themselves unable to find housing in the capital. BristoLatino’s editor-in-chief, Helen Brown, interviewed Ana […]
Tiffany Ip, who currently works for an anti-mining NGO in Colombia, visited landmine victims in La Granja, where she learnt about their long road to receiving reparations. Situated 8 hours north of Bogotá in the Santander department is a small town called Bucaramanga. It was here that I got to spend 5 days with a […]
BristoLatino Art editor Helen Brown talks us through José Sokoloff’s TED talk about his Christmas advertising strategies that convinced FARC guerrillas to demobilise. ‘Prisoners of their own organisation’ In Colombia, armed conflict with the FARC has claimed 220,000 lives and displaced 5,700,000 people. The FARC have financed the war through kidnappings, forced ‘taxes’ for those […]
On Thursday the 24th November 2016, Bristolatino editor Rebecca Wilson joined Colombians gathering in Bogotá’s main square Plaza Bolívar, to celebrate the signing of the new peace agreement between Santos’ government, the FARC, and the Colombian public. Large screens streamed live footage from Colon Theatre, situated just behind the square, and speakers amplified the national anthem, sung by […]
Currently interning at Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, Rebecca Wilson writes about the shock of the Colombian ‘No’ vote to the historic peace deal from the ground I woke up tired, but excited. And hopeful. At 3am on a disturbingly quiet Saturday night (the ‘ley seca’ came into play at 6pm, meaning no one could buy […]
BristoLatino editor-in-chief Rosanna West interviewed prize-winning Colombian journalist Diana Carolina Durán about her new role as Judicial Editor of El Espectador, and what made her want to follow in the footsteps of her legendary predecessors, who have long made the daily national a highly-respected newspaper. When hit US Netflix series Narcos hit our laptop screens this summer, many […]
BristoLatino features editor Georgina Turner asks whether the recent agreement on justice made at the Havana peace talks can be considered the beginning of the end of the Colombian internal conflict. Everybody is talking about the recently released Netflix series Narcos, which dramatizes Pablo Escobar’s long reign as head of Medellin’s infamous drug cartel and his criminal methods of control. As […]