Playing the Flute
On oil spills in Colombia.
Colombia
The Stowaway
His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men.
What Lockdown? World’s Cocaine Traffickers Sniff at Movement Restrictions
The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.
Adventures in the Ransom Trade
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar
The profits and controversy of posthumous celebrity.
She Told Them She Was Hugo Chavez’s Ex-Wife and Worked in the White House. And She’d Make Them Rich.
It turns out “Madame Giselle” wasn’t any of these things, couldn’t make her Chevy Chase, Maryland, neighbors rich, and may have been at the center of a massive scandal in Colombia.
Out of the Jungle
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas face a new battle: re-joining society.
The Faithful
What happened when two guys set out to convert their Colombian megachurch to Orthodox Judaism.
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá
Two pairs of identical twins mismatched in a hospital happen upon each other in their twenties.
The Chopping Houses
Fears of witchcraft leave a trail of dismembered bodies in Buenaventura, Colombia.
Inside Pablo Escobar's Private Prison
In exchange for his surrender, the top Colombian drug lord was allowed to build his own jail, complete with a disco, jacuzzi, and waterfall. Now 23 years later, it’s a home for the elderly.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Art of Fiction No. 69
“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.”
The Power of Gabriel García Márquez
On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.
Death and Drugs in Colombia
On Colombia’s “macabre alliance”:
In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder.
The Colombian Coke Sub
A former pilot of miniature cocaine-smuggling submarines tells his story.
I Fell In Love With a Female Assassin
A young reporter heads to Colombia to report on the conflict between FARC and the paramilitaries. He meets a girl on the bus. After they begin a relationship, she reveals that that she is part of a death squad.
