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Colombia – The town that adopted the unknown dead

Colombia’s bloodletting has left the country with a macabre puzzle. The government says 61,825 people have been reported missing and there are records of more than 11,000 unidentified corpses. People of Puerto Berrio adopt the tombs of the unknown dead.


Colombia – Pablo-Escobar-Tours boom in Medellin

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 […]


Colombia – Pablo Escobar and his Wartburg

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 […]


Colombia – Meeting Pablo Escobars family

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 […]


Colombia – Palenque – Das erste freie Dorf Südamerikas

Entflohene afrikanische Sklaven erkämpfen sich in Kolumbien die Freiheit. 400 Jahre später haben sich ihre Nachfahren eine einzigartige Sprache und Kultur bewahrt. Willkommen in San Basilio de Palenque. Read my reportage for Deutschlandfunk.


Colombia – Victim of armed conflict runs a beauty salon

On assignment for Caritas Schweiz, I had the pleasure to interview Luz Nurbelly, a Colombian woman who had to flee conflict in her home region and opened a beauty salon in Bogotá.


Venezuela – The general in his labyrinth

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.


Colombia – Coffee trip to Colombia

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