Photo: Erika Piñeros

Southern Exposure: Erika Piñeros

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Huber Ballesteros was arrested in 2013 as he prepared to leave Colombia for Britain, where he was due to be a guest of campaign group Justice for Colombia at the Trades Union Congress. After his release in 2017, he returned to the conference as a guest of honour, and is pictured with then-TUC president Mary Bousted.Photo: Andrew Wiard

Petro state

Report on Colombia by Conrad Landin.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Who will protect the land?

Who will protect the land?

Hazel Sheffield explores how the history of failed land reform in Colombia threatens both people and planet. Illustrations by Léo Hamelin.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Iron fist

Iron fist

President Ivan Duque has promised to ‘modernize’ Colombia’s police force.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Colombia Protests.Illustration: Zach

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Colombia Protests by Zach (Philippines)

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Photo: Enrique Shore/Alamy

Hall of Infamy: Iván Duque Márquez

Colombian technocrat Iván Duque Márquez is not exactly a fan of peace.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
Photo: Liliana Merizalde Gonzalez

Southern Exposure: Liliana Merizalde Gonzalez

A striking portrait of inner strength by Colombian photographer Liliana Merizalde Gonzalez.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
‘We can’t stop now’

‘We can’t stop now’

Unusually, victims testified directly at the Havana peace talks between FARC guerrillas and the government. Maria Eugenia Cruz Alarcón, one of the first to bear witness, explains why she will defend Colombia’s peace agreement – at all costs.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
The funeral in April 2017 of indigenous leader Gerson Acosta, among the hundreds killed since the peace deal of 2016.Photo: Mads Nissen / Panos

The slow and bloody road to justice

Colombia’s peace deal promised the return of stolen lands. But it isn’t so easy to achieve, Mira Galanova discovers.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Illicit crops are still the only option for farmers like Arnulfo Perdomo.Photo: Shahidul Alam/DRIK

War on coca farmers continues

Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, and how it might undermine Colombia’s peace. Bram Ebus reports.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Pablo Beltrán and others in the ELN’s peace delegation address the media during talks in Quito earlier this year.Photo: EFE News Agency/Alamy Stock Photo

Guerrillas gamble for peace

The clock is ticking for peace in Colombia. Next month a ceasefire with the ELN, the last remaining leftwing guerrilla organization in the country, is due to run out. Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
‘This is cultural genocide’

‘This is cultural genocide’

Indigenous communities in Colombia refuse to occupy an empty space in history, and believe their very cultural survival is at stake, reports Hazel Healy.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Education against the odds. Yemeni children attend classs in a school building damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in Taez.Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images

Education otherwise

The world is full of extraordinary schools. We feature three inspirational stories about courageous teachers, second-chance education and progressive pedagogy in Yemen, South Sudan and Colombia.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Cajamarca celebrates a landslide victory after a popular vote against La Colosa mine.Photo: Felipe Cortes

Colombians put stoppers on mammoth goldmine

The people of Cajamarca have won an important battle against mining giant AngloGold Ashanti, writes Tatiana Garavito.

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NI 503 - Homelessness - June, 2017

Action on Colombia

Organizations around the world that support human rights in Colombia.

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NI 497 - Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears - November, 2016
Irrael Aguilar (left) is one of the indigenous Zenú leaders who lives under severe threats for his involvement in environmental struggles. He is accompanied by fellow leader Juan Urango.Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’

The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.

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NI 497 - Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears - November, 2016
Colombians cling to the glimpse of peace offered by the historic accord between FARC and the government.Photo: Guillermo Lagaria/AFP/Getty

Peace in Colombia?

Another shock referendum result – this time in Colombia. Tatiana Garavito assesses the chances of ending the longest conflict in the western world.

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NI 497 - Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears - November, 2016
The missing Ayotzinapa teachers remembered in Oaxaca, Mexico.Photo: Jim West/Alamy Stock Photo

The fight goes on…

Workers’ struggles and successes from around the globe, from this month's New Internationalist magazine.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016
Photo: Pedro Szekely

Calculating the environmental benefits of peace in Colombia

The costs of the 50-year conflict add up to ecocide. Doug Weir reports.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Climate capitalism January, 2024
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Railways September, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Homelessness June, 2017
Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears November, 2016
Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears November, 2016
Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears November, 2016
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
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