Since the 7th of March 2019, various nationwide blackouts sent Venezuela back into the Stone Age. The first blackout took me and the country by surprise. For almost a week, I was completely disconnected from the outside world, without electricity, water, internet and phone. A photo diary published by the Swiss magazine NZZ am Sonntag.
Colombia – Welcome to Paradise
Ten thousands of Venezuelans of fled to the poor neighbourhoods of Bogotá. How do the underdogs from two countries get along among themselves?
Colombia – Children of Peace
In years of fighting against the Colombian government, female fighters of the FARC guerillas were not allowed to have children. Once, the rebels started negotiating peace their camps experimented a true baby boom.
Colombia – Rebel without a cause
Sargento Pascuas is the longest-serving active member of the FARC guerrillas. He is 76 years old and has been fighting for over 50 years. Now, as the FARC are giving up the armed struggle, he wonders what do to with his last years of life. He hasn’t learnt anything else than fighting.
Colombia – Peace prevails in an unlikely spot
High in the hills of central Colombia, a cluster of eight villages has managed to do what the rest of Colombia only aspires to: sign a peace deal with the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC.
Colombia – The town that adopted the unknown dead
Colombia’s bloodletting has left the country with a macabre puzzle. The government says 61,825 people have been reported missing and there are records of more than 11,000 unidentified corpses. People of Puerto Berrio adopt the tombs of the unknown dead.
The general in his labyrinth
The retired Venezuelan general Ángel Vivas is trapped in his home in Caracas. I visited him.
Colombia – The law and the fear
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