by The Wordyeti | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s been 20 years since I took a job as wire editor, later managing editor, of the Caracas Daily Journal. In all that time, I have not returned. Part of that is because the circumstances under which I left were pretty heinous – I had been...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Egg Messenger Originally uploaded by Wordyeti I’ve got a major blog post marinating about Cucuta, the Narco-Emperor there known as “El Pulpo” (“The Octopus”), the trip to Bucaramanga, where Pablo Escobar blew up 20,000 sq. feet of a...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Victory or Death Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is one of the images that just stuck in my head … sometimes you feel like you’re walking through the set of a giant movie, and this march was like that. The Pereirans in the street, out in the blazing...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Praying for the release of the FARC hostages Originally uploaded by Wordyeti I went into the cathedral at the behest of the rather skeevy taxi driver/local tour guide we had hired for the afternoon, and quickly found that they were in the midst of a deeply emotional...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
El Tiempo – Turning Your Back on the Problem WIll Not Make it Disappear Originally uploaded by Wordyeti Due to the infuriating upstream bandwidth throttle at the Hotel de Pereira, I am not able to upload the amazing set of photos we took of the mass protest...
