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
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 […]
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.
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.
On photo assignment for Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH) visiting flood victims in Córdoba in the north of Colombia. DKH would select the photograph of a smiling boy in a temporary shelter for its calendar 2013.
San Vicente del Caguán galt einmal als die heimliche Hauptstadt der Linksguerilla FARC. 1998 ließ der damalige kolumbianische Präsident die Armee aus dem Ort abziehen. Nun ist sie wieder da, und die Guerilla auch. Zum kompletten Artikel hier.
How the Colombian government wants to give back their lands to millions of displaced people Read the complete article here.
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