The president of Mexico was happy. “Today we’ll listen to cumbia music,” said Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “because of the victory of Gustavo Petro” in Colombia’s presidential election. “I cannot hide it. I am very happy.”
THE FIESTA IS ON THE LEFT
THE RETURN OF INGRID BETANCOURT
THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA? Ingrid Betancourt once told me that she was going to be president of Colombia and would then invite me to the Casa de Nariño for one of her first interviews.
COLOMBIA: “WE ARE STILL KILLING EACH OTHER”
For me, Colombians have the best parties. More than the laughing and the dancing, there’s that sense of enjoying the moment, like there’s nothing else.
War Is Easy
“In this war, there were neither winners nor losers,” said Timochenko, one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, after a peace deal was announced this summer between FARC and the Colombian government.
Peace for My Colombian Friends
I have many friends in Colombia who have not seen a day of peace in all their lives — not one single day. But that may be changing soon, as an end to the country’s decadeslong civil war seems to be within reach.
Colombia’s Unwinnable War
In Colombia, the army and the guerrillas of the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia have been for waging war for …
Breakfast With Gabriel García Márquez
I never referred to him as Gabo or Gabito; unfortunately, I was never lucky enough to be part of that …
FOR BETANCOURT, THE END OF SILENCE
Ingrid Betancourt’s silence has indeed ended. In her latest book, “Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity …