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Life and death in Tumaco… is football the only hope?

April 13, 2012

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When the children of Tumaco ask for career advice they tend to receive a blunt response. It comes in the form of a popular local saying – fisherman, stowaway or footballer. But that’s probably just being kind. Fishing in a smuggling haven is fraught with danger. And being a stowaway to the United States just […]

Fighting FARC… and sexism? The women on Colombia’s front line

April 12, 2012

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There was no time for pilot Erika Pedraza to think. She could see the blood soaking through her right glove as she gripped the controls. She was aware of the sharp sting of a bullet. But she couldn’t feel the pain. Moments earlier her colleague’s helicopter had plunged into the Colombian jungle and now her […]

The Children of Latin America

February 1, 2012

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People sometimes ask me why I never used to use photographs on my blog. They’re right – it was always a case of one, or none when it comes to pictures – although nowadays I am much better. Perhaps I was lazy or perhaps I suspected that if a photograph really does tell a 1,000 […]

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