Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Over the next four years, he smuggled $1 billion worth of cocaine into the United States — …
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Consumers in the United States are about to pay the price for Donald Trump seeking revenge. The president announced “emergency tariffs” of 25 percent on all Colombian goods to the United States, along with other “retaliatory measures,” because President Gustavo Petro refused to accept two U.S. military flights of deported …
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“Today is the first day of my life, I threw the match and set it all alight,” the Colombian electronic artist Ela Minu sings on a key track from her new abum DIA. The song, called “Onwards,” is archetypal Ela Minus: aggressive, combative, and sneering music wrapped in subdued soprano …
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This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. NICOLAI FELLA, AN MC who’s part of the Bogotá collective LosPetitFellas, has long incorporated blues, funk, and other experimental sounds into his music — but rap has always been the cornerstone. “Whenever I sit …
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Colombian singer Ela Taubert has been on the rise over the last few months, gaining fans with her colorful, bright-eyed approach to pop music. Her new song “Para Qué?” borrows folk and pop-rock sounds and showcases just why so many people have been drawn to her confessional lyricism and bubbly …
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I N THE COLISEUM, the bull stares down hundreds of men. He’s a half-ton killer, black, head white like a skull, horns curled. Bred for the fight. There’s violence in his DNA. The bull scans the crowd in the ring, alert to any challenge. The crowd watches for the animal’s …
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Most remember Griselda Blanco as the “Black Widow,” a ruthless Colombian drug lord whose network flooded Miami with cocaine, brought in $80 million a month nationally, and who’s been personally implicated in a rumored 200 murders. Michael Corleone Blanco, her youngest son raised at the height of her drug-trafficking empire, …
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Leer en español O n the last day of June, about 15,000 fans have braved dense New York City smog to worship at the altar of Karol G. At Rockefeller Center, a massive crowd assembles for the superstar’s debut on the Today show, dressed in Colombian levanta-cola (butt-lifting) jeans and …
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Between host Ana de Armas, who hails from Cuba (and is soon to be a U.S. citizen), and musical guest Karol G, who’s from Colombia, it was a very Latina edition of Saturday Night Live this week. With a white orchid in her hair, and backed by a group of …
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Across their EP Abismos, sisters Valeria and Valentina Perez are perfectly in sync, their diaphanous voices winding in and out of each other to create unexpected harmonies at every turn. As preternatural as it sounds, they admit it took them a while to find the sense of unity that’s defined …
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