Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia
318 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsColombia Calling is your first stop for everything you ever wanted to know about Colombia. Colombia Calling is hosted by Anglo Canadian transplant to Colombia, Richard McColl and the Newscast is provided by journalist Emily Hart. Tune in for politics, news, reviews, travel and culture stories, all related to Colombia.
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415: Gender, participation, and the pandemic's impacts on peace
March 08, 2022 15:30 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThis week on Episode 415 of the Colombia Calling podcast, Emily Hart talks to two global experts on women in peacebuilding processes about their research into the pandemic and its effects on key actors in Colombia’s peace process – women. As the fourth peak of the covid19 cases fades, the dust is starting to settle on pandemic management worldwide – how the lockdowns and movement restrictions affected peacebuilders and their crucial work, and how Colombia’s peace could suffer in the long...
414: Re-inventing the Future and decolonising sci-fi with acclaimed Colombian author and artist Luis Carlos Barragán
March 01, 2022 17:29 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB“The shadow of anglophone science fiction has been over us for a long while – but there has also been a constant attempt to get rid of that shadow.” Acclaimed Colombian science-fiction author Luis Carlos Barragán talks to Emily Hart about Latin American sci-fi, technoshamanism, pre-Colompunk, alien invasions and more on Episode 414 of the Colombia Calling. Tune in to a fascinating conversation which takes many turns as Hart and Barragán take on cyberpunk, colonialism, giant worms and so...
413: What is Forensic Architecture?
February 22, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 61 MBOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we get to delve into the world of forensic architecture with expert Hannah Meszaros-Martin PhD and how this has been used to uncover and investigate topics, crimes and more in Colombia. And we have Colombia news reported by journalist Emily Hart. Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corp...
412: Protests in Colombia: the urgent need for police reform
February 15, 2022 15:30 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBFurther to our series in 2021, regarding some of the intricacies and causes of the Paro Nacional or national demonstrations in Colombia which brought much of the country to a standstill, we have decided to follow these up in 2022 with equally pressing issues. This week on episode 412 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we are honoured to welcome Juan Pappier, Senior Investigator for Human Rights Watch on Colombia Calling to talk about the urgent need for police reform in Colombia. Pappier ha...
411: Blood, Gun, Money - an investigation into the enormous black market for firearms
February 08, 2022 15:30 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBFrom the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings. The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico’s powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren’t often connected in our heated discussions o...
410: There is no such thing as Spanish
February 01, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJournalist Emily Hart sat with Frank Wynne, tracing his incredible career from the start of his linguistic journey (a breakup and a bookshop in Paris) to his award-winning translation of writers across Latin America and the francophone world – particularly his work on cult Colombian author and ‘Enemy Number 1 of Macondo’ - Andrés Caicedo and his novel “Liveforever!”. Tune in for a literary episode exploring one of Colombia's least known and cult authors recounted in such an erudite fashion.
409: Forensic Science in Colombia's Conflict
January 25, 2022 15:30 - 56 minutes - 52 MBThis week's Colombia Calling podcast explores the position of forensic experts and their role in this (post)accord period in Colombia and their role in uncovering truths in Colombia's long-running conflict. María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra, University of Amsterdam | UVA · Department of Anthropology, Doctor in Social and Behavioural Sciences joins us to share her findings as a social scientist and ethnographer having interviewed many forensic experts and their findings in the field. We disc...
408: Author Anika Fajardo speaks about her Colombia-infused writing
January 18, 2022 15:30 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBAnika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. She is the author of a book about that experience, Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), which was awarded Best Book (Nonfiction) of 2020 from City Pages and was a finalist for the 2020 Minnesota Book Award. Here on the Colombia Calling podcast, we talk about her Colombia-infused writing, what it means to be half Colombian, how she got involved in the film Encanto and...
407: Colombia Questions and Answers with Emily Hart
January 11, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBFor Episode 407, our first of 2022, Emily Hart and I take a look back at 2021 in Colombia and then address a number of questions that you, the listeners, sent in to us. Thank you for the questions which cover journalism, fake news, visa issues, politics, elections, Covid-19, mental health and Medellin. Tune in for a great episode with which to begin 2022.
406: The "Paisa Mutation" and an explanation of Colombia's early onset dementia
December 14, 2021 15:30 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBWe are humbled to host Kenneth Kosik, professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara on this week's Colombia Calling podcast, the final for 2021. Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. is an American neurologist, author, researcher and professor in neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kosik provided much of the original data on the largest family in the world with a genetic form of Alzheimer's disease located in Antioquia, Colombia. And this is where our interest lies. We discus...
405: Colombia's most secret e-commerce start-up
December 07, 2021 15:30 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBOn episode 405 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we explore the world of e-commerce in Colombia and talk to Sebastian Laurson of the start-up sex toy company, Secretos. Dane Laurson is partner with five other immigrants to Colombia and between them, they are seeking to revolutionise the sex toy industry, removing the stigma from the business in peculiar nook and cranny stores in parts of Bogotá and making it accessible and confidential for the buyer. We hear how they came to start this ...
404: Colombia's first woman chess grandmaster
November 30, 2021 15:30 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBNadya Ortiz is Colombia's first woman chess grandmaster. Hailing from humble origins in Ibague, chess became a conduit for her success. By succeeding in the chess world, she won a scholarship to study at university in Texas, later another one to go to Purdue and then by virtue of her excellence in computer science now works for Apple in San Francisco. We hear Nadya's story on episode 404 of the Colombia Calling podcast. As a woman from the provinces, playing an unpopular sport, she made i...
403: Las Señoritas: Liberated missionaries in Colombia's Sierra Nevada
November 23, 2021 15:30 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBOne of the goals of the Colombia Calling podcast is to reveal lesser or unknown stories from Colombia and this week on Episode 403, I feel we've really hit this one out of the park! We get to talk to Daniela Rocha and Daniel Velasquez, part of a team of filmmakers currently putting together a documentary entitled: Las Señoritas. This is a special story as it highlights the work of a religious organization called USEMI (la Unión Seglar de Misioneras). This is a missionary group with a diff...
402: Witchcraft in Colombia's Armed Conflict
November 16, 2021 15:30 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBIt's no secret that I've been looking for someone to discuss this on the podcast for some while, but finally, it's come together. Johanna Gomez is in the process of writing up her PhD thesis at the Goldsmiths University in London and her research has taken her deep into the Llanos of Colombia, where witchcraft is rife, to investigate this phenomenon, the rites and rituals and delve into a lesser known cultural practice found in this region and all over Colombia. How much do you know about...
401: Protecting Colombia's River Atrato
November 09, 2021 15:30 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBPresident Duque's presence at the COP26 in Glasgow has generated the kind of headlines that he seeks but it's important to hear from the people on the ground and in the communities. One collection of communities very affected by illegal mining, deforestation, armed actors, displacements, coca cultivation and more are those along the Atrato River in the department of Choco on Colombia's pacific side. We hear from three environmental professionals all en route to Glasgow. Maryuris Mosquera ...
400: Episode 400 with Adam Isacson of WOLA
November 02, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBTo all Colombianists out there, Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America needs no introduction. Offering some of the most insightful analysis on not only Colombia but other countries in the region, he is a go to person for journalists seeking out informed and level-headed opinions. We hear from Isacson after this, his first visit to Colombia since quarantine restrictions have been lifted and in the company of Congressman Jim McGovern. They travel to Sumapaz, Cali, Santand...
399: Who's a spy? You're a spy...Colombia Calling speaks to writer Emma Louise Jay
October 26, 2021 14:30 - 59 minutes - 136 MBOn episode 399 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we welcome back one of our consistently most popular guests, writer and academic Emma Louise Jay. You'll remember her from the "Downton Abbey with a machete," episode some years ago and also talking to us about her investigation into and writing on Colombian historic figure: José María Córdova and much more. But, on this episode we have a more free-flowing conversation about Colombia, her move from Antioquia to Eastbourne UK, the current sta...
398: Isabel Cristina Zuleta and Beto Coral are Activists for Colombia
October 19, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBOn Episode 398 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we address a sadly overlooked topic and that of the human rights and environmental defenders in Colombia. It is a great honour to host Isabel Cristina Zuleta, praised by Amnesty International for her work with Ríos Vívos - Antioquia Movement, in defense of the territory, and of the affected communities in the area of influence of the Hidroituango project, and Beto Coral, a Colombian activist in exile in the US for having named former presiden...
397: Briceño, Antioquia: An Uncomfortable Peace
October 12, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBAlexander Diamond joins the Colombia Calling podcast from Briceño, Antioquia to tell us about his research which has kept him in the rural Colombian town for 24 months so far. Briceño is a so-called "peace laboratory," designated as a principal site for coca crop substitution after the signing of the peace accords between the government of President Santos and the FARC guerrillas in 2016. Now, the location of a tug of war power struggle between dissident guerrillas and paramilitaries, ...
396: Leishmaniasis in the context of the Colombian Armed conflict
October 05, 2021 14:30 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBOn Episode 396 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we get to discuss the disease of leishmaniasis in the context of the Colombian armed conflict and post conflict period with post doctoral fellow Lina Beatriz Pinto-Garcia. Pinto Garcia's ethnographic monograph explores how the Colombian armed conflict and a vector-borne disease called cutaneous leishmaniasis are inextricably connected and mutually constitutive. The stigmatization of the illness as “the guerrilla disease” or the "subversiv...
395: Hasta Siempre Colombia, or So Long Colombia
September 28, 2021 14:30 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBHasta Siempre Colombia, Dr Paola Cubillos speaks to Colombia Calling. Was Dr Paola Cubillos naive when she and her husband decided to gamble everything and return with their three children from Canada to Colombia? It was 2016 and the peace accord with the FARC guerrillas was all but signed, things appeared to be changing for Colombia and they wanted to be part of it. The peace accord was signed not long after they arrived to live and work in Cali in southwestern Colombia. Then, the "No...
394: Four Weeks down Colombia's Magdalena River
September 21, 2021 14:30 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBAn exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much...
393: Adventures in freelance journalism in Colombia
September 14, 2021 14:30 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBExactly 40 episodes ago in December 2020, freelance journalist in Colombia, Joshua Collins (@InvisiblesMuros) made his first appearance on the Colombia Calling podcast talking about the border region at Cucuta and with neighbouring Venezuela. So much has happened since then and we've collaborated on projects from Cucuta for the New Humanitarian and the Globe and Mail reporting on the tragedy of the Venezuelan migrants crossing into Colombia and making the journey South all the way to Chil...
392: Adriaan Alsema of Colombia Reports is being sued
September 07, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAdriaan Alsema of Colombia Reports says it was satire and the injured party from RCN Colombia claims that it was slander. You can decide for yourselves over the duration of this podcast which takes in the subject of Adriaan Alsema's legal difficulties in recent weeks and an overall look at the increase in harassment of journalists in Colombia. Can a journalist in Colombia discuss corporate activity in criminal activity, asks Alsema of Colombia Reports? No stranger to controversy, Alsema t...
391: La Casa de Mama Icha: a new Colombian documentary regarding place, belonging and identity
August 31, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBOn episode 391 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we talk to the director and producer of a new and incredibly insightful and moving documentary entitled: La Casa de Mama Icha. Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to Philadelphia in the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there. Now, at the end of her life, Mama Icha boards a plane and flies back to C...
390: Appreciating the Peripheries of Medellin, Colombia
August 24, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBA great deal is made of the urban regeneration of Medellin's infamous Comuna 13, and for good reason, but now that there's a "been there, seen this, done that," attitude towards this success story, with tourists arriving in their droves to view the graffiti, ride on the escalators and marvel at the strength of a community in the face of such adversity, is it time to extend this policy of regeneration and hope beyond the frontiers of but one nighbourhood? Exploring the issues which arise a...
389: Being a Migrant isn't a Crime -the harrowing tales of Darien Gap crossings
August 17, 2021 14:30 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBThere's a humanitarian crisis taking place at Panama's southern border and in northern Colombia where thousands of migrants ranging from countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and as far-flung as Congo, Syria and Nepal are lining up to cross the Darien Gap in the hope of some day reaching the United States of America. On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we have the honour of talking to Raul Lopez, project coordinator and Doctor Fabiola Pintado, both of Doctors Without Borders (Medi...
388: A Problem Solver and Educator in Colombia
August 10, 2021 14:30 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBIt's no stretch of the imagination to agree with Glen Galindo's description of himself as a problem solver and educator as he has carved out quite the life for himself in serving Colombia from his home base in Colombian coffee zone's town of Chinchina, Caldas. With Galindo's set up, you can launch your Colombia Experience by immersing yourself within the public school system as an assistant teacher where you can brush-up your Spanish and gain insight on what's it like to work as a teacher...
387: Protests in Colombia: Voices from the Primera Linea (Part 2)
August 03, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBOn episode 387, we pick up where we left off in Episode 386 and continue to talk to our anonymous sources from La Primera Linea (front line) of protests in Colombia. Speaking to us from Cali and Popayan, these youths speak about the importance of education and voting, how police reform should occur and how the Colombian government could better spend aid money from international governments which all too often goes towards the purchase of lethal weaponry for the Colombian police. We hear f...
386: Protests in Colombia: Hearing from the Primera Linea
July 27, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBThe Primera Linea, as the front line of the youths in Colombia's protests during the paro nacional strike is known, have been labelled as terrorists and vandals by the police and President Ivan Duque. In what is a first for the Colombia Calling podcast, we host a bilingual episode where three members of the Primera Linea share with us the reasons as to why they are striking, what they are demanding of the government and the hopeful outcomes to these protests. On this occasion, we are able...
385: History and Culture of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia's Caribbean
July 20, 2021 14:30 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBIt's a great pleasure to have a true expert in their field on the Colombia Calling podcast and discussing one of the lesser known cultures in Colombia, that of the Raizal people of San Andres and Providencia. To most Colombians these Caribbean islands represent only a vacation escape but the truth is that there is so much more. Sharika D. Crawford is associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and she joins us to talk about her extensive research on slave routes to t...
384: Emily Hart discusses life as a journalist in Colombia
July 13, 2021 14:30 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBMany listeners have asked after the Colombia Calling news journalist and this week it's a pleasure to have the one and only Emily Hart with us here in Mompós to discuss her life and journalism here in Colombia. Hart is a journalist and researcher from the UK with a strong background in politics and human rights and has been reporting on some fascinating topics here in Colombia. Her bylines have been featured in the Times, the Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sky News and Pitchfork. O...
383: How Corruption in Colombia Works
July 06, 2021 14:30 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MBMany years ago we aired a podcast entitled: "How Corrupt is Colombia?" (Ep172) and unfortunately, the question is still all too timely today. In fact the issue of corruption here is perhaps more pertinent than ever in 2021 in a post Odebrecht era in Colombia, with the Char family in Barranquilla still making overtures about potentially launching a campaign for the presidential elections in 2022 and a seemingly endless slew of accusations levied at politicians on every side of the political s...
382: Is Colombia a Comedy of Errors?
June 29, 2021 14:30 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBColombia a comedy of errors tells the story of all fifty million Colombians, examining the country’s history, people, culture, colombianomics and justice. The first edition of this satirical survival guide was a bestseller in Colombia from the first month of its release. This, the second edition, contains brand new and expanded chapters including: Dating, Beauty, A to B and Justice, which gives the book its name. The book was written by British writer Victoria Kellaway and Colombian artis...
381: Operation Berlin, Colombia: a documentary revealing the truth about a military attack on the FARC in 2000
June 22, 2021 14:30 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBAbducted, cheated and forced to fight in a war that wasn't theirs. Former child soldiers of the FARC recount one of the most shocking yet least known atrocities of Colombia´s civil war in this feature-length animated documentary entitled: "Operación Berlín: The children who fought war in Colombia." Mathew Charles is a long-time journalist and investigator working in Colombia and covering some of the most difficult topics, embedding himself with the ELN guerrillas or the paramilitaries in ...
380: Protests in Colombia: Graffiti and Urban Artwork in the context of the Paro Nacional
June 15, 2021 14:30 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBIn the context of the on-going #paronacional protests in Colombia, it's time for the Colombia Calling podcast to take a look at another angle of what is going on in the streets, on the walls and all over the underpasses in the country. In short, during the unrest, which began on 28 April 2021, urban art, protest art and graffiti have proliferated to extend and spread the message of the youths' discontent with the status quo in Colombia. This is our chance to chat to Jahir (Jay) Dimate of ...
379: Protests in Colombia: The Issue of Human Rights Violations during the Paro Nacional
June 08, 2021 14:30 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWith the #ParoNacional still on-going in Colombia, we take on the subject of human rights and human rights law in the context of the situation here. For some background on our expert guests, read on: Maria Clara Galvis is a lawyer from the Externado University of Colombia. Professor Galvis has graduate studies in Compared Constitutional Law from the Universitá Degli Studi di Geneva. Since 2015, she has been a member of the United Nations Committee against Forced Disappearance and is cu...
378: The Role of the Press in Covering the Paro Nacional protests in Colombia
June 01, 2021 14:30 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we continue on our series relating to the on-going unrest surrounding the #ParoNacional protests in Colombia. With more than a month of daily nationwide demonstrations, Adriaan Alsema of Colombia Reports follows Elizabeth Dickinson (Crisis Group), Andres Bermudez (JusticeInfo.net) and Sergio Guzman (Colombia Risk Analysis) in discussing an important angle to explain what is going on. Alsema joins us to discuss the role and responsibility of the pre...
377: Protests in Colombia: The Public's Exasperation with the Colombian Political Class
May 25, 2021 14:30 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBIt's an absolute pleasure to welcome Elizabeth Dickinson, Snr Analyst for Colombia at Crisis Group, back on the Colombia Calling podcast to explore more profoundly the unrest and the #paronacional in Colombia. We recorded this episode as Colombia hit an unenviable benchmark of 24 days of protests which began on April 28. What is going on, why and what can we expect in the coming months as we move into the presidential election cycle in 2022? Showing complete clarity, Dickinson has been...
376: FARC Admit Kidnapping Policy in Colombia
May 18, 2021 14:30 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBAs the the nationwide paro nacional protests continue in Colombia, it's worth taking a moment to explore an incredibly important piece of news which has been buried by their blanket coverage in the press. This week, on Episode 376 we speak to journalist and investigator Andres Bermudez (www.justiceinfo.net) about the recent admission by the FARC guerrillas that kidnapping was an official policy and not an "economic retention," as they previously had claimed. This admission by the FARC ...
375: Protests in Colombia: Hear the Facts
May 11, 2021 14:30 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBThese are troubling times in Colombia. This episode was recorded on Sunday 9 May during the 12th day of nationwide protests in Colombia. Sergio Guzman, Director of Colombia Risk Analysis joins us to provide a total overview of what has been going on here. Guzman is recently returned from Cali where a great deal of the unrest has been taking place. We hear about what the situation felt like in Cali and the overall ambiance there. Then, Guzman provides us with a look at the situation in Col...
374: The "Emerging Jews" of Colombia
May 04, 2021 14:30 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBJoining us from Cali, Colombia is Heidi Paster Harf to explain to us a little about the phenomenon of "emerrging jews" in Colombia. To explain this, first let's put this into perspective: One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites and Colombia is no excepti...
373: Angela Sierra is Unbound in Pereira
April 27, 2021 14:30 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBAngela Sierra is a self-described bookish foodie chocoholic coffee lover, writing stories from and about Colombia and this where we begin on Episode 373 of the Colombia Calling podcast this week. What are the relationships between Culture, Identity and Society? And where do these fit into a country as complex as Colombia? By addressing these issues and more, we enjoy an open and flowing dialogue about cultural clashes, appropriation and how to live in this land. A little more about Ang...
372: Beyond and above Medellin's Comuna 13
April 20, 2021 14:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking to Damon O'Neill a Londoner based in Medellin and volunteering at the Ecoparque above Comuna 13 in the city. A former trialist for West Ham and Tottenham football clubs, O'Neill brings his football talent to the city of Medellin and trains up children from Comuna 13 in his spare time. But, there's more to this story, the idea is not only to train children in football but also to open up the area above Comuna 13 t...
371: The "On the Edge with Andrew Gold" podcast on Colombia Calling
April 13, 2021 14:30 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBYou may or may not have heard of journalist and documentary maker Andrew Gold, such is life, but I highly recommend his podcast: "On the Edge with Andrew Gold." Gold's podcast is one of my go-to shows for when I walk the dog during these trying pandemic times and it never fails to maintain my attention and awaken my curiosity. What is little known perhaps is that Andrew Gold lived in Medellin for a while and has a "Colombia story" to share with us alongside with other anecdotes from his v...
Saving Colombia's Birds of Prey
April 06, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBIt's not every day you hear of someone on a sports scholarship to a US university and then returning to Colombia to follow her passion of rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing birds of prey back into the wild. Well, that's Ana María Morales' story! Morales' describes these incredible birds of prey as "raptors," and so to clarify: Raptors are birds of prey in the orders falconiformes and strigiformes. In English, that means eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, osprey, kites, and others, their ma...
369: Conflict Photography Laid Bare by Malcolm Linton
March 30, 2021 14:30 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBRenouned conflict photgrapher with experience in civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, the genocide in Rwanda and so much more, Malcolm Linton, joins us once again on the Colombia Calling podcast to share some more of his stories from the field. His experiences in some of the most brutal conflict arenas, his desire to cover humanitarian causes and the first time he was shot....this and more on Episode 369. Why has he returned to the Colombia Calling podcast? To share his experiences and a...
368: Post Pandemic Travel and Tourism in Colombia
March 23, 2021 14:30 - 48 minutes - 44 MBBy all accounts 2020 looked set to be a record year for international tourism to Colombia. It's obviously old news now what happened and that the service industry has been battered by the Covid-19 pandemic...but what have travel agencies and hotels been doing during this time and how do they plan to create a motor for growth once again? This week we talk to Bruce McLean, a New Zealander now resident in Viterbo in Colombia's coffee region to talk about his travel agency - www.bnbcolombia.c...
367: Psychosocial Help for Humanitarian and Aid Workers
March 16, 2021 14:30 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBSabrina Prioli first joined us on the Colombia Calling podcast in 2013 on Episode 23, now on Episode 367 and eight years later, we catch up with her in Zambia and chart her life and work from Colombia to Peru, South Sudan and then to her present location. For more than ten years Prioli has worked in humanitarian projects in montoring and evaluation and is keen to share with us that there is very little if any psychosocial help for aid workers spending extended periods of time in conflict ...
366: Protecting Colombia's Children
March 09, 2021 15:30 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBChildren Change Colombia is the largest UK charity working exclusively in Colombia and we are honoured to have Executive Director Angela Maria Carreño on the show this week to explain their work on this the 30th anniversary of their founding. CCC has been working with children and their families to challenge poverty, inequality, discrimination and violence in Colombia. Of course, it's far from plain sailing in Colombia and to this day, millions of Colombian children still face poverty, vi...