563: Tropical Diseases and Disease Ecology in Colombia
This week we speak to Camila Gonzalez Rosas, Director and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Los Andes University in Bogotá and Researcher at the the Centre for Investigations into Microbio...
22 Apr 20251h 2min
562: "Exploring the Toxic Record of Colombia's Oil Giant." The BBC speaks to the Colombia Calling podcast.
Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. However, as detailed in a new documentary p...
8 Apr 20251h 14min
561: "Silent, but so much to tell." The mystery of Colombia's Mummies
In today's episode, Emily Hart speaks to archaeologist Daniella Betancourt: the woman decoding the enigma of Colombia's mummies. Mummification is a practice which has been carried out all over the wo...
1 Apr 20251h 5min
560: Championing English-language books about Colombia
Barry Max Wills, author of: "Better than Cocaine: Learning to Grow Coffee, and Live in Colombia," and Richard McColl of: "The Mompos Project: A Tale of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia," join edit...
25 Mar 202550min
559: Blood Gold in Colombia
On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we speak to James Bargent, an investigative journalist for Insight Crime about his work putting together the new podcast: "the Shadow of El Dorado." Along wit...
18 Mar 20251h 13min
558: Back to the (microscopic) Future: Using Palaeontology, Pollen, and AI to predict and protect our futures
Today, we go back many millennia in order to protect ourselves for the coming centuries: Emily Hart speaks to two Colombian scientists, Carlos Jaramillo and Camila Martínez, time-travellers of the sma...
11 Mar 202557min
557: The Petro Presidency Meltdown?
President Petro's Disastrous Televised Cabinet Meeting or The Petro Presidency Meltdown. Pause for breath if you can, but we've been experiencing a barrage of negative headlines surrounding Colombia'...
4 Mar 20251h 10min
556: The Colombia that is Silenced
This week on the Colombia Calling podcast, we speak to Lorena Estupiñán-Pedraza, a professor of international relations and political science from Boyaca, but resident in the southern city of Cali. I...
25 Feb 20251h 10min
