Cimarrona: Free Women, Free Peoples

History says that a group of enslaved people were brought to Ecuador to do forced labor on the Jesuit plantations. It was the 16th century and a wave of yellow fever had killed a large part of the conquered indigenous population that worked in them. Colonizers wanted...

Diary of a Wreck Family

 When his father was killed, Andrés Cardona was three and a half years old. His mother took him to the military headquarters to claim the body. When she was killed, Andrés had already turned four. Where she is buried is still a mystery. Andrés is part of a...

How to take photos of the pandemic

 July 2020. Latin America is the focus of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several countries in the region have some of the highest infection rates per capita in the world. The humanitarian and economic prospects are shocking: in a report, the UN warned that in addition to...