Monteria – Training Graduates

Monteria – Training Graduates Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is the roomful of grinning graduates of our training seminar. They all get certificates of completion, and the energy in the room was humbling and inspirational. Small papers like this have so...

Meeting with El Mero Mero y Su Familia

Meeting with El Mero Mero y Su Familia Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This was taken this last Sunday, after we had finished with the training in Monteria. The Gerente of the El Meridiano papers invited us to his finca outside Monteria, where we talked at length...

Blazing into Cartagena Harbor

This is video shot from a speedboat entering Cartagena Harbor. It’s calmed down a lot, but only a couple of years ago, the narcotraficantes and the Colombian Navy were playing a deadly game of tag here. The video is extremely bumpy because of the high rate of...

Cartagena – La Popa Catedral

This is a view inside the ancient cathedral that sits atop the hill that they call "La Popa" overlooking Cartagena.  The Spanish designed their cathedrals not only as religious shrines, but as military refuges, atop strategic hills, and with thick,...

El Meridiano Newsroom

El Meridian Newsroom Originally uploaded by Wordyeti These young, fresh faces are all journalism students here in Monteria. They were in the pressroom to watch the big wheels of paper get loaded onto the spindles, and for the big old creaky offset press to start...