Colombia
The Lede
How Colombia’s President Reached an Uneasy Détente with Donald Trump
After the attack in Venezuela, its neighbor state reckons with U.S. aggression.
Q. & A.
The Historical Roots of Donald Trump’s Aggressive Nationalism
What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.
Screening Room
A Relationship and a Nation in Turmoil in “Bogotá Story”
Esteban Pedraza’s short film examines the strain a young woman endures when she has to choose between her dreams and her family.
Photo Booth
A Photographer’s Vision of Queer Life in Colombia
A new bill aims to enshrine the rights of trans and nonbinary Colombians. Camila Falquez takes pictures of the lives it could change.
Photo Booth
A Girl’s Coming of Age in the Countryside of Her Childhood
“Solo Apto Para Mí Misma” chronicles adolescence amid the pandemic in the eastern plains of Colombia.
This Week in Fiction
Clare Sestanovich on Routine and Rupture
The author discusses “Our Time Is Up,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
This Week in Fiction
Junot Díaz on Writing as an Act of Faith
The author discusses “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
Tables for Two
The Bounty of Casa Margaritas
The restaurant, on the eastern edge of Queens, serves mainly Colombian feasts, but also offers Mexican food and many fruity varieties of its namesake cocktail.
The New Yorker Documentary
Isolation and Belonging in “Two-Spirit”
For Mónica Taboada-Tapia, making a documentary about the struggles of a transgender woman living in a small, remote community became a source of unexpected connection.
Screening Room
Exploring Privilege in a Colombian Coming-of-Age Film
In Mariana Saffon’s “Between You and Milagros,” a young woman begins to understand her place in the world.
Daily Comment
Protests in Colombia, Elections in Peru, and Other Chaos in the Andes
Hopes for a sustained democratic rebirth in the seven Andean nations have waned, again.
Video Dept.
A Community’s Struggle to Protect Itself from Land Mines in the Colombian Amazon
The territory of the indigenous Siona people has been caught up in armed conflict for decades; now the group is balancing the needs for demining efforts and for isolation.
Daily Comment
The Death of Antonio Bolívar, an Indigenous Elder in the Amazon Rain Forest
Bolívar, who achieved fame appearing in the film “Embrace of the Serpent,” as a man forgetting his roots, is believed to have been infected by the coronavirus, which is now threatening Amazon communities.
The Front Row
Review: “Birds of Passage,” the Tragic Story of an Indigenous Colombian Family’s Involvement in the Drug War
The ethnographic thriller’s cultural richness is overwhelming, its sense of detail piercingly perceptive, and its sense of drama rigorously yet organically integrated with its documentary elements.
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“Guerrilla Marketing,” a Sobering Book on How Armies Burnish Their Brands
Colombia’s military hoped to sell a better image of itself than the one airing on independent media, so it engaged in “brand warfare,” working with advertising agencies to shift public perception.
Letter from Medellin
The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar
In Colombia, a drug lord’s posthumous celebrity brings profits and controversy.
Letter from Colombia
Colombia’s Guerrillas Come Out of the Jungle
Carlos Antonio Lozada, a FARC commander, tries to guide his former fighters back into society.