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Where the Wild Things are: Colombia's Eastern Plains
✒️ Monsters on horseback, bull-bowling, and joropó: a weekend in San Martín de los Llanos, Meta
Nov 28, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'Kolumbiytsi' – the thousands of Colombian soldiers holding the Ukrainian Front
💬🎙️ Interviews about my recent investigative work via the Colombia Calling podcast and DG Magazine
Dec 5, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'A truth which cried out loud': the long road to justice for the 'false positives' murders
🎙️✒️ The people behind the '6,402' and their decades-long battle for truth and dignity - exclusive to Substack
Sep 25, 2025
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Emily Hart
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What is the Colombia Briefing?
Feb 6, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Rhythms, Heartbeats, Identities: Around Colombia in 150 Records
Mar 28, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'Kolumbiytsi' – the thousands of Colombian soldiers holding the Ukrainian Front
Dec 5, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Unseen Worlds: Colombia's Sonic Universe
May 6, 2025
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Emily Hart
12
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'A truth which cried out loud': the long road to justice for the 'false positives' murders
Sep 25, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'Drones changed not only how we fight, but how we live': Technology, conflict, and the growing threat to Colombian security
Nov 14, 2025
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 12th January
🗞️ 'Colombia can sleep peacefully' following reconciliation with Trump; murder of community leaders on the rise; inflation closes 2025 at 5.1%; new…
Jan 12
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 5th January
🗞️ Region left reeling by US strike on Venezuela; Trump continues to threaten Colombia; historic 23% minimum wage hike & more
Jan 5
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 22nd December
🗞️ 'Economic emergency' declared; Christmas ceasefires follow spate of attacks; former president appears in 'Epstein List'; Colombia rejects military…
Dec 22, 2025
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 15th December
🗞️ Countrywide armed lockdown imposed by ELN; pre-election jostling continues; more Colombians on Clinton List re: mercenaries; Petro dubs Chile’s new…
Dec 16, 2025
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Emily Hart
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History & Conflict
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'Kolumbiytsi' – the thousands of Colombian soldiers holding the Ukrainian Front
💬🎙️ Interviews about my recent investigative work via the Colombia Calling podcast and DG Magazine
Dec 5, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'Drones changed not only how we fight, but how we live': Technology, conflict, and the growing threat to Colombian security
💬 Q&A with security expert Camilo Mendoza, author of new book 'Drone Threat'
Nov 14, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Word for Word: Memories of the ‘False Positives’ Murders
💬 Testimony from Casanare, Colombia: Dulcelina, Jacobo, and Derly - in their own words
Aug 15, 2025
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Emily Hart
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When Conflict Came to Town: the Urbanisation of the Colombian Civil War
💬 Urban conflict and the Colombian state's collaboration with paramilitary groups - an interview with historian Max Yuri Gil, Professor at the…
May 30, 2025
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Emily Hart
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On Petrol, Pollution, and Paramilitaries in Colombia
🎙️ An hour with the BBC documentary-maker who exposed the state oil company's crimes - both against the environment and those who have sought to defend…
Apr 9, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Where the Wild Things are: Colombia's Eastern Plains
✒️ Monsters on horseback, bull-bowling, and joropó: a weekend in San Martín de los Llanos, Meta
Nov 28, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'The Strong Ones': What menstruation reveals about class, culture, and sexual taboo in Colombia
🎙️ New interview with Karol Lopez, founder of 'Las Fuertes,' on empowering girls and women through menstrual education — breaking silence and taboos…
Nov 5, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'Neo-Liberalism in Downward Dog?' Urbanisation, Inequality, and Gentrification in Colombia's Cities
🎙️ New interview with Prof. Nicolas Forsans via the Colombia Calling podcast
Sep 3, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Fuller Vigil (Richard)
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Nicolas Forsans
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Truth Demands: Murder, Oil Wars, and Climate Justice
🎙️ Abby Reyes on her new memoir: from the murder of her partner by FARC guerrillas to the rise of modern climate activism - amid conflict, grief, and…
Aug 20, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Explained: The Trial of Former President Álvaro Uribe
🗞️ The first Colombian President ever convicted in a criminal court: found guilty of witness bribery and fraud, sentenced to 12 years in prison (to be…
Oct 21, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'A truth which cried out loud': the long road to justice for the 'false positives' murders
🎙️✒️ The people behind the '6,402' and their decades-long battle for truth and dignity - exclusive to Substack
Sep 25, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Cultivating Justice? How cannabis regulation could transform Colombia
🎙️ An hour with drugs & security expert Lucas Marín Llanes - on how legalising the cannabis industry could boost security, social justice, and public…
Aug 27, 2025
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Emily Hart
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“The earth has begun to speak - and the mothers were right all along."
✒️ Truth buried in the rubble of Medellín and the women who unearthed it: a 20-year fight for justice and the battles still to come for Colombia's…
Feb 28, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Unseen Worlds: Colombia's Sonic Universe
🎙️✒️ Exploring the science and magic of natural sound with the Humboldt Institute
May 6, 2025
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Emily Hart
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On Petrol, Pollution, and Paramilitaries in Colombia
🎙️ An hour with the BBC documentary-maker who exposed the state oil company's crimes - both against the environment and those who have sought to defend…
Apr 9, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Back to the (Microscopic) Future...
🎙️✒️ Meet the Colombian scientists using AI, fossils, and pollen to predict and protect humanity's future on Planet Earth
Mar 19, 2025
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Emily Hart
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'There is nothing more queer than Nature': Brigitte Baptiste on Biodiversity, Sexuality, and Healthy Irony
💬 Colombia's most acclaimed ecologist - and LGBTQ+ icon
Oct 25, 2024
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Emily Hart
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Zombies, Magicians, Climate Saviours? Inside Colombia’s Fungi
🎙️ An hour with two of the country's leading scientists on fungi - on why they deserve our attention as well as our respect...
Jan 24, 2024
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Emily Hart
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Science & Technology
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Valley of Forgetting: Colombian Alzheimer's families, genetic curses, and drug trial ethics
🎙️✒️ Interview with Jennie Erin Smith on her new book: families with early-onset Alzheimer's genes and the search for a cure in Colombia
May 23, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Fuller Vigil (Richard)
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Save Our Seeds! The back-up drive for food DNA in the heart of Colombia
🎙️✒️ Futuristic methods, timeless dilemmas: the race against time to conserve the biodiversity of our food sources in the face of climate change and…
Feb 6, 2025
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Emily Hart
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Ya es hora. Tackling Big Tech to build peace and security in Colombia
🎙️ Social media companies and how they contribute to violence in Colombia. Digital corporations are failing to protect free speech, democracy, or…
Dec 18, 2024
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Emily Hart
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Technopoly? Social media and human rights in Latin America
🎙️✒️ How big are the footprints of social media corporations in countries like Colombia? Podcast with experts from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia - and…
Nov 15, 2024
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 12th January
🗞️ 'Colombia can sleep peacefully' following reconciliation with Trump; murder of community leaders on the rise; inflation closes 2025 at 5.1%; new…
Jan 12
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Emily Hart
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The Colombia Briefing | 5th January
🗞️ Region left reeling by US strike on Venezuela; Trump continues to threaten Colombia; historic 23% minimum wage hike & more
Jan 5
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Emily Hart
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Unseen worlds, monsters on horseback, truth amid the rubble, and music worth burying...
2025 in review — with huge thanks to you! 🥂
Dec 29, 2025
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The Colombia Briefing | 22nd December
🗞️ 'Economic emergency' declared; Christmas ceasefires follow spate of attacks; former president appears in 'Epstein List'; Colombia rejects military…
Dec 22, 2025
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Emily Hart
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