Colombia is vying for a place in the global race to produce renewable energy. One desert region on its Caribbean coast is ...

One of the three 49-meter blades under construction at the Guajira-1 wind farm at the end of October 2021 Looking like huge, beached white whales in an arid landscape, the wind turbine’s blades lie on ...

La Guajira is the driest and hottest place you will find in Colombia and the home of the legendary Wayuu people. The Wayuu are particularly legendary because the Spanish were never able to conquer ...

La Guajira, the oft-forgotten, arid northeast corner of Colombia is one of Colombia’s most contentious and provides a window into the complexity of the current battles underway between organized ...

The strategic Colombian peninsula of La Guajira, a sought after departure point for drugs heading across the Caribbean, may be up for grabs once more with the arrest of the gang leader who controlled ...

Manaure, Colombia – The coastal ponds stretched over the horizon, their shallow blue waters dotted with shimmering pyramids of white — each one a pile of artisanal salt waiting to be collected. In the ...

Synonymous in Colombia with extreme poverty and abandonment, the peninsula of La Guajira faces drought and coal dust pollution from one the world’s biggest coal mines. One of the main gateways for ...

Granadillo is a member of the Wayuu people, the largest Indigenous group in Colombia, and an outreach worker for the energy company Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB). The company wants to build a major power ...

First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana. Now, fishermen fear the ...

In the state of La Guajira, ambitious plans to transition to renewables are beset by bureaucratic delays and anger from many local Indigenous people, who see it as ‘new colonialism’ A few years ago, ...

Flamingos in the wild, sand dunes in the desert that run into the sea, the crafts and culture of the Wayuu indigenous people — all at the northern most tip of South America. This is La Guajira, a ...

The Cerrejon mine train carrying coal ore to the Puerto Bolivar terminal in front of the Guajira 1 wind farm at Cap de la Vela, Guajira region, Colombia, January 6, 2024. VICTOR RAISON The El Cerrejon ...