2 diciembre 2014, Medellin. It has been 21 years since Colombia’s most notorious and violent trafficker was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop. His sister Luz Maria Escobar organized a mass in the chapel of the graveyard where her brother […]
Tourists love Pablo Escobar! Tours dedicated to the narco responsable for more than 3000 deaths boom in his home town Medellin. I joined a group of visitors. In the image the Edificio Monaco where Escobar and his family lived for […]
Pablo Escobar drove his girlfriends through Medellin in a Wartburg. So told me his brother Roberto Escobar, himself part of the extint Cartel de Medellín. I met Escobar at his home. He showed me the East German sports car in […]
A man was watering the flowers surrounding Pablo Escobars grave. I asked him if had known the most famous Colombian. He answered: “Indeed. I am his brother-in-law”. The same night he introduced me to his wife, Pablos sister Luz María […]
Venezuelan General Angel Vivas has barricaded himself in his house, heavily armed, to avoid arrest. I visited him. Published by Swiss Das Magazin and Austrian news magazin profil.
Teachers are underpaid, schools are broken and thousands of children are illiterate: Two years after the massive earthquake, education in Haiti is still in a desolate state. The new president wanted to reform it – but there is hardly any […]
The interview with Boris was one of the most emotional I have had in my career. I wish him all the best on his way to become a civilian in Colombian society. Boris Forero, 42, returns from the jungle. Now […]