By Gabriel Schwarb On Saturday 23 May, a boat sailed along the Magdalena river displaying a giant billboard bearing Abelardo de la Espriella’s face. In the night sky above the Gran Malecón in Barranquilla, drones drew the silhouette of a tiger over the crowd. Fifty thousand people looked upward while the music shifted from Joe … CONTINUE READING →
The number 18,677 took more than a decade to come into existence and barely a few weeks to become electoral ammunition. It was produced by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the tribunal created by the 2016 accord to prosecute the crimes of Colombia’s armed conflict, after painstaking cross-referencing on the recruitment of minors by the … CONTINUE READING →
On May 31, 2026, Abelardo de la Espriella obtained 43.7% of the votes in the first round of the Colombian presidential elections. That night, as results were confirmed on screens scattered across the country, thousands of Colombian women were somewhere specific, gathered with their mothers, with friends, in Calarcá, in Bogotá, in newsrooms, in family … CONTINUE READING →