Rejecting Peace: What's Next for Colombia and the FARC
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In a shocking referendum over the weekend, Colombians voted against a historic peace deal signed early last week between the government and the...
View ArticleColombians Reject Peace Deal, What Happens Next?
Washington Post Latin America correspondent, Nick Miroff, talks about the surprise vote against the peace deal negotiated with the rebel group FARC and the Colombian government.
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Colombians reject peace deal with FARC rebels in narrow vote
A supporter of “Si” vote cries after the nation voted “NO” in a referendum on a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels in Bogota, Colombia, on Oct. 2, 2016. Photo by John Vizcaino/ReutersIn...
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Why did Colombian voters reject the FARC peace deal?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to a major upset in South America.Yesterday, voters in Colombia rejected a peace deal between their government and the largest rebel group, known as...
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Colombian president gets this year’s Nobel Peace Prize
File photo of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with Paz, or “peace,” written on his palm. Photo by Jose Miguel Gomez/ReutersColombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday won the Nobel Peace...
View ArticleColombian President Wins Nobel Prize as FARC Peace Deal Hangs in Limbo
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced this morning in Oslo, Norway.The Nobel Committee selected Colombian President Juan Manuel...
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Rejected FARC deal earns Colombian president the Nobel Peace Prize
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning, its laureate chosen from a record 376 nominees. And, as in years past, the Nobel...
View ArticleBeyond Political Peace: What Truth and Reconciliation Might Look Like for...
When the historic peace deal between Colombia's government and the FARC failed to pass in early October, many were shocked and scrambled to understand what happened.The referendum, which was the result...
View ArticleColombia’s president: I’m ‘trying to unite the country’ after rejected peace...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tells the PBS NewsHour, “I went out and recognized the result” after voters rejected a peace deal with FARC rebels, “which is what any president and any citizen...
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Can Colombia rework its FARC deal without jeopardizing peace?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: We go now to the nation of Colombia, where one of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars in South America appeared to be coming to a peaceful end...
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Colombia and FARC sign amended peace deal
Peace activists make their way into downtown Bogota after starting a trek from Cali in a bid to call for a swift resolution to stalled peace agreement with FARC in Bogota, Colombia, October 24, 2016....
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Colombia tries for peace a second time
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos speaks in the country’s capital Bogota on Nov. 12. Colombian Presidency/Handout via ReutersNegotiators from Colombia’s government and main rebel group published...
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Amidst violence, Colombia signs new peace deal with FARC rebels
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOHN YANG: The president of Colombia signed a new peace deal with FARC rebels this morning, about six weeks after voters narrowly rejected an earlier agreement. Days...
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News Wrap: Plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashes, killing 71
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: A chartered plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashed overnight in Colombia, killing 71 people on board. The plane...
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Colombia’s Congress ratifies retooled peace deal
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos gives a speech after signing a new peace accord with Marxist FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timochenko, in Bogota, Colombia on Nov. 24. Photo by...
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Last 300 FARC rebels to lay down arms
Members of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) patrol in the remote mountains of Colombia, August 16, 2016. Picture taken August 16, 2016. Photo By John Vizcaino...
View ArticleColombian Man's Swift Detention Worries Immigrant Advocates
On Wednesday, Yahaira Burgos learned that her husband, Juan Vivares, 30, had been flown to an immigration detention center in Texas, a day after he was sent to a detention center in New Jersey."I would...
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More than 100 dead after river overflows, destroying homes in Colombia
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos attends an event where Colombia’s Vice President German Vargas Lleras presented his office’s annual report in Bogota, Colombia, March 14, 2017. Photo by Jaime...
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News Wrap: Neil Gorsuch passes Senate hurdle as Democrats reach 41 ‘no’ votes
Watch VideoThe post News Wrap: Neil Gorsuch passes Senate hurdle as Democrats reach 41 ‘no’ votes appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: President Trump holds joint news conference with Colombia’s...
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a joint news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House on Thursday.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has welcomed the...
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5 takeaways from the new U.N. report on refugees
Evacuees make bread inside a refugee camp in Erbil, Iraq, for people who fled from Mosul due to fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. Photo by Erik De Castro/ReutersDespite peace...
View ArticleIn Colombia, Deforestation Grows as FARC Leaves The Amazon Rain Forest
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. For 52 years, the armed insurgency known as the FARC controlled a vast region of land in Colombia's Amazon Rain Forest. But as the guerrillas...
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Pence to begin Latin America tour as global crises grow
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by ?Vice President Mike Pence? (R), speaks to reporters after a security briefing at his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey U.S. August 10, 2017. Photo by...
View ArticleSantiago Gamboa's Gritty World
Colombian author and journalist Santiago Gamboa, winner of the Otra Orilla Literary Prize, joins us to talk about his new book, Return to the Dark Valley. He tells the stories of different characters...
View ArticleRadio Program for Colombia's Missing Goes Off the Air After 24 years
For nearly 25 years, Voces del Secuestro, a Colombian radio program, broadcast calls from the families of kidnapping victims in the hopes that their desperate pleas would be heard.The host, Herbin...
View ArticleWatch: 'Amar Así' by Bomba Estéreo (Live In Studio)
Based in Bogota, Columbia, the band Bomba Estéreo continue to explore their South American roots, mixing up cumbia, vallenato, and champeta with reggaeton, hiphop, dubstep and Euro electronica. On...
View ArticleA Public Health Crisis in Puerto Rico Unfolds as a New Hurricane Season Nears
From hospitals and medical facilities to treatment and Medicaid, Puerto Rico’s public health system was failing well before Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. An inquest by The Puerto Rico Center for...
View Article"Narcotours" Provide Inside Look at Drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar's Operation
It’s been 25 years since the death of the Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. He was one of the wealthiest cartel leaders of all time, making the Forbes list of international billionaires every year...
View Article312- Post-Narco Urbanism
In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord, had effectively declared war on the Colombian state. At one point, his cartel was supplying 80% of the world's cocaine and the violence surrounding...
View ArticleRep. Hakeem Jeffries on the Impeachment Inquiry; Politics and Thanksgiving;...
U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8), House Democratic caucus chairman, talks about the latest news on the impeachment inquiry, as lawmakers return to Washington after the Thanksgiving...
View ArticleProtests for Democracy: Colombia
Dr. Noam Lupu, political science professor at Vanderbilt University and Associate Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, breaks down what's driving political unrest in Colombia.
View ArticleMonte – "Mirla" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Monte – "Mirla" (Weekly Music Roundup)Simón Mejía is the leader of the popular Colombian dance band Bomba Estéreo. But he has a new side project called Monte, which uses field recordings he made in the...
View ArticleMonte Raises Environmental Awareness Via Lush Electronic and Natural Music
Monte is the project of Simón Mejía of Bomba Estéreo, whose new record Mirla is a meeting of electronic dance, ambient music, and environmental sounds. Mejía describes how he was inspired by the...
View ArticleBomba Estéreo – "Sonic Forest" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Bomba Estéreo – "Sonic Forest" (Déjame respirar / Let Me Breathe) (Weekly Music Roundup)The Colombian electronic dance band Bomba Estéreo has done the theme song for a new documentary film, called...
View ArticleColombia Decriminalizes Abortion
Here in the U.S., abortion access is under threat as state legislatures continue to pass increasingly restrictive laws. But that’s not necessarily the case elsewhere in the world. Across Latin America,...
View ArticleMini-Global Mashup: Tibet Meets Colombia at Flushing Town Hall
Mini-Global Mashup: Tibet Meets Colombia at Flushing Town HallTibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo/ Colombian artist Martín Vejarano, accompanied by guitarist Jorge Iván "Tito" Duarte. Sun., June 12. 1PM....
View ArticleColombia's First Leftist President
Julie Turkewitz, Andes bureau chief for The New York Times covering Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname and Guyana, joins to talk about Colombia's historic election results, the...
View ArticleOil fire in Cuba jeopardizes frail electric system
In Cuba, a fire at a key oil terminal on the coast in Matanzas is out of control, causing explosions, injuring hundreds and killing a firefighter. The implications for Cuba's electric grid are also...
View Article#4660, New Music From Colombia
Hear new music from the Colombian diaspora, including cumbia-inspired music by Queens band Combo Chimbita, Japan’s Minyo Crusaders, Berlin-based Lucrecia Dalt, Swiss-based band Palenque la Papayera,...
View ArticleUnpacking Colombian President Gustavo Petro's UNGA Speech
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Bogota Monday. On the agenda were policies key to the future of U.S.-Colombian relations. Colombia’s first leftist...
View Article515- Super Citizens
Los Angeles' El Peatonito is part of a subset of real life superheroes who are more focused on things like picking up trash and taking on civic issues than catching criminals in alleys.These super...
View ArticleThen I Blocked Them: How Estrangement Became Official
When we first asked for your stories on estrangement, we wondered if it was like a slow pulling away, or like a flipped switch? In episode two of our three-part series, we talk to four listeners for...
View ArticleMeridian Brothers Tweaks Traditions of Salsa and Cumbia
Meridian Brothers, founded by musician Eblis Álvarez, fuses a love of classic salsa with cumbia, vallenato, spacey psychedelia, and wacky samples for a playful dance party. With a body of songs...
View ArticleAccessible Birding, Human Water Consumption, Road Salt Impacts, Terraformers...
Meet The Blind Birder Reimagining Accessibility In The OutdoorsFor many blind and low vision people, accessing outdoor spaces like parks can be challenging. Trails are often unsafe or difficult to...
View ArticleMigration across Darien Gap transforms local economies
As the number of people trying to cross the jungle on their way to the United States increases, transporting migrants and leading them on treks across the rainforest has become the main industry in...
View ArticleSPECIAL: A spotlight on animals around the world
Climate change is undeniably bad for the animal kingdom. But some animals are able to adapt — so far — by changing their behaviors or even their bodies. In this special series all about animals, we...
View ArticleEnd of summer on the Mediterranean?
Thousands of tourists evacuated off the Greek island of Rhodes last month are being offered a free holiday on the island next year by the country’s government. But a new report by the European...
View ArticleAfghan news outlets mostly snuffed out
Two years after the 2021 Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, independent journalism there has been all but completely snuffed out. Some news outlets continue to report on Afghanistan, but from outside the...
View Article#4660, New Music From Colombia
Hear new music from the Colombian diaspora, including cumbia-inspired music by Queens band Combo Chimbita, Japan’s Minyo Crusaders, Berlin-based Lucrecia Dalt, Swiss-based band Palenque la Papayera,...
View ArticleMontanera – "Santa Mar" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Montañera – "Santa Mar" (Weekly Music Roundup)Montañera (real name Maria Monica Gutierrez) is a Colombian singer and songwriter based in London. Drawing on traditional Colombian music and ambient...
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