Colombian government has made peace with the FARC guerrilla. What does this mean for Colombian coca farmers? I visited coca plantations in La Gabarra close to the Venezuelan border.
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Photographing coca farmers in in La Gabarra, Colombia, on assignment for The Miami Herald.
A farm in Colombia has brought together an unlikely group of former guerrilla and paramilitary fighters… Read article in Der Spiegel by correspondent Jens Glüsing, with my collaboration.
2 diciembre 2014, Medellin. It has been 21 years since Colombia’s most notorious and violent trafficker was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop. His sister Luz Maria Escobar organized a mass in the chapel of the graveyard where her brother […]
Tourists love Pablo Escobar! Tours dedicated to the narco responsable for more than 3000 deaths boom in his home town Medellin. I joined a group of visitors. In the image the Edificio Monaco where Escobar and his family lived for […]
Pablo Escobar drove his girlfriends through Medellin in a Wartburg. So told me his brother Roberto Escobar, himself part of the extint Cartel de Medellín. I met Escobar at his home. He showed me the East German sports car in […]
A man was watering the flowers surrounding Pablo Escobars grave. I asked him if had known the most famous Colombian. He answered: “Indeed. I am his brother-in-law”. The same night he introduced me to his wife, Pablos sister Luz María […]
Mexikos Drogenkartelle reagieren auf den Konkurrenzkampf und weichen auf andere Länder aus. In Guatemala droht deshalb der Kollaps des Rechtsstaates. Read article for Zeit Online here.
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