Police in Colombia aren’t just militarized, they’re controlled by the military. Critics say that needs to change — Bogotá, Colombia — Clad in black tacti-cool stormtrooper armor and armed with clubs, the vanguard of the riot police advance. A second line launches tear gas into crowds of protesters which spreads out in billowing clouds. …

Police brutality, inequality, rising violence and a deeply unpopular administration are driving demonstrations across the country — Bogotá, Colombia- Protests in Colombia just celebrated their month anniversary. Tens of thousands are currently in the streets, roadblocks have stopped the flow of goods at critical commercial transport hubs and parts of the country are quite literally in flames. …

Meet the kids of Cali, who make up the soul of a national revolution — Cali, Colombia- A few hundred young women enter Puerto Resistencia, (Port Resistance) the heart of protests here in Cali, with their fists raised to the air in a gesture of defiance against the state that has been killing them in the streets for weeks. …

2020 was a collective trauma, but also a year of the people — Forty thousand terrified and angry people, dressed in rags and improvised cloth masks yelled at police, begging not to be left stranded on the wrong side of a closed frontier. Oily black smoke from trash being burnt on the Venezuelan side blotted out the sun, and riot police stood by…

The indigenous protests that crossed half a nation to confront a president — Bogota, Colombia- They say there are over 3,000 people in the indigenous caravan. I have been travelling with them for three days, riding on the roof of one the overcrowded school buses they call Chivas. This conglomeration of indigenous communities, the Minga, in the native tongue, formed in southwest Colombia…

The authoritarianism of the ivory tower is a contradiction — “‘Cancel Culture’ is out of control and threatens liberal discourse!” has become a rallying cry for those, who often for the first time in their lives, and usually from a powerful platform, face public criticism that they have historically safely ignored. Shocked by the temerity of peasants who dare to…