Egg Messenger

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...

Victory or Death

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...

Praying for the release of the FARC hostages

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...

Praying for Release of FARC Hostages

Praying-for-release-of-FARC Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is the interior of the earthquake-damaged cathedral in Pereira. We stopped in there on Sunday, and walked into the middle of a heavy, emotional mass for the kidnapped victims of the FARC guerillas....