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By Caroll Viana - June 16, 2025 The National Library of  Colombia  has inaugurated the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, featuring more than 450 manuscripts.  Credit:  Guadalajara Film Festival  / CC BY 2.0 The National Library of Colombia has inaugurated “Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation”, the most extensive and revealing exhibition ever dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, master of magical realism and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. For the first time in his home country, an exhibition has been mounted that brings together free to the public more than 450 items, including manuscripts, personal belongings, and documents. These materials were recovered from Garcia Marquez’s archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, as well as from national and international collections. ‘Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation’, the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez The exhibit opened its do...

By Josep Freixes - June 16, 2025 Child labor in  Colombia  remains a harsh reality for one of the country’s most vulnerable populations, especially in rural areas. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. Child labor in Colombia remains a crisis affecting the most vulnerable population. Although data from recent years shows this social scourge is not increasing, it remains stable and primarily impacts children in rural areas. According to official data, the child labor rate in the country stands at about 2.9%, rising to 6% in rural areas distant from state control. Child labor: Stealing the future of Colombia’s most vulnerable Marking the International  Day Against Child Labor , observed last Thursday, June 12, it was made known in Colombia that this scourge continues to affect segments of the vulnerable population, especially in rural areas. In the last three months of 2024, there were 311,000  children  under 15 working in Colombia, representing 2.9% of the country’s...

  WORLD & NATION Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel pose with a machine gun in the state of Michoacán. Some former Colombian soldiers say the cartel lured them to Mexico under false pretenses and forced them to fight. (Juan Jose Estrada Serafin / For The Times) By   Kate Linthicum  and  Keegan Hamilton June 9, 2025  3 AM PT Some Colombian veterans were lured to Mexico by the promise of high-end jobs, only to discover their new employer was a drug cartel. The former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said the presence of foreign fighters in the cartel wars could justify U.S. actions in Mexico. MEXICO CITY —  Dangerous new hired guns have arrived on the battlefield of Mexico’s cartel wars: Colombian mercenaries. Former combatants in Colombia’s long-standing internal conflict are increasingly being lured to Mexico by criminal groups to train hitmen, build bombs and fight bloody turf battles. Eleven Colombians were arrested in Michoa...