Colombia's Legal Minefield Threatens Its Future

For the past 10 months, Luis Andrade has suffered a baleful daily routine. Every morning, the former McKinsey consultant has breakfast in his Bogotá apartment, works out at the downstairs gym, then goes online, watches movies or scans the news. He has little else to do. By law, Andrade cannot leave his building overlooking the […]

This Doc Fights for Women in Colombia's Acid Attack Epidemic

It was while training as a medical student, hunched over a seven-hour facial reconstruction, that Alan González realized he was destined for a career in plastic surgery. But it wasn’t until later, when he was an established physician and 16-year-old Erika Vanegas walked into his office, that the course of his career began to change. […]

This Presidential Hopeful Wants to Rewrite Colombia's Peace Deal

Aikido, the art of peace. That’s what Colombian Sen. Iván Duque is riffing on at 10 p.m. from the front seat of a bulletproof Toyota as I sit squeezed between two bodyguards. The Japanese martial art is a discipline he mastered as a teenager and, today, as one of the most vocal opponents of Colombia’s […]