Colombia in the Eye of “el Tigre” (opens in new tab)

On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Bogotá. Thugs had destroyed one of their spaces, the Pollinators’ Garden in Suba. Emboldened angry men with machetes, shovels, and axes chopped down tomate de árbol and avocado trees, multiplying [...]