CBC News
Years after 3 Ontario women were murdered, advocates say dangerous gaps in rural cell service persist
(December 2022)
Inquest into 2015 femicide recommended improving rural mobile networks. Advocates say it hasn't happened yet. Read more here.
Quartz
How men in Latin America are unlearning machismo
(July 2020)
In January, Freddy Contreras, the leader of a well-known Colombian taxi union, made headlines after he released a video mocking women Uber drivers, saying they should work as cleaners instead. Read more here.
Illustration: Alicia Tatone
The Christian Science Monitor
Working thousands of miles from home - to build a new one
(May 2020)
Israel Vail López walks from room to room, treading across construction dust that powders the hardwood floor in this new home. It has high ceilings and freshly painted white walls, and he proudly turns on the lights to show his hard work. Read more here.
Photo: Megan Janketsky
BBC News
The translators giving indigenous migrants a voice
(April 2020)
When Ericka Guadalupe Vásquez Flores began working as a translator for detained migrants and their lawyers in the United States, she could not stop thinking about her younger brother, Bryon. Read more here.
Vice News
Migrants take out huge loans to pay coyotes. Coronavirus could cause them to default.
(April 2020)
Maria was terrified when her 23-year-old daughter, Daniela, fled their small Guatemalan village for the United States. Daniela’s children cried for their mother, watching for her to walk through the doorway. Maria feared for Daniela’s life — but she also feared that if her daughter died during the perilous journey to the U.S., the family could lose their home. Read more here
Photo: Megan Janketsky
(November 2019)
Quartz
Why Bogota’s election of its first female mayor matters for Colombia
“Today was the day for girls. Today was the day for youth. Today was the day for women,” announced Claudia López in her victory speech on Sunday night. She had just been elected the first woman and the first openly gay mayor of Colombia’s capital city. Read more here:
(November 2019)
In 1995, 30-year old Maria Trujillo was pregnant with her first Martin, and people told her to stop working so hard. She had just helped connect Colombia to the internet for the first time, and now she was busy preaching the word of the web to university students and faculty in Cali, Colombia's third largest city. Read more here.
(September 2019)
Gustavo Reyes Reyes stands in his language class in front of two dozen energetic children who have been tasked with calling out the names of the ingredients found in "sancocho", a Colombian soup. "Apù!" the students shout out together, which means water in the town's native language, Palenquero. Read more here.
(September 2019)
It was on 8 June 1708 that Spanish galleon San José erupted into flames off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. The ship had been at battle with the British since late afternoon, and by night, the 62-cannon galleon had disappeared into the Caribbean Sea. With it, sunk nearly 600 people and up to $20bn worth of gold, silver and jewels. Read more here.
(March 2019)
Yolanda Perea Mosquera is standing on a podium before a crowd in central Bogotá talking passionately into a microphone."Colombia is ours," she says. "Peace is ours, and it depends on all of us."She is speaking in a convention centre packed with 1,400 victims of the armed conflict. Read more here.
(February 2019)
If I closed my eyes, I could see her. It was Friday evening in July 1956. Thirty-one and travelling alone, my grandmother had just arrived at Mexico City’s Hotel Geneve. She’d be tired; she would have just stepped off a five-day bus journey from Toronto. More than 60 years later, I could relate. Twenty-six and travelling alone, I had listless bags under my eyes, and I was checking into the same hotel. Read more here.
(July 2017)
ON SATURDAY night in Parque Poblado in Medellín, young people gather to drink, smoke and chat. Barbara and her cousin Sophia have more serious business: they hope to make enough money from selling sex to live decently after fleeing Venezuela, where survival is a struggle. Read more here.
(September 2016)
Luis Emilio Arboleda stands before a line of stopped traffic at an intersection in downtown Medellin, Colombia, and holds a sign high above his head."If you're against FARC-Santos, HONK," the sign reads in Spanish. Dozens of cars sound their horns. Read more here.
(February 2014)
When the Supreme Court of Canada declared three major prostitution laws unconstitutional in December, Valerie Scott called it the best day of her life. Now, Scott and other advocates for safer conditions for sex workers are concerned the ruling may have been futile. Read more here.
