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Pulitzer Center Update
Boston University Student Reporting Fellows Learn the Ropes
Fellows spent time in Washington, D.C. preparing for their international reporting projects and...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Gaiutra Bahadur Bridges Narrative Past and Present at Spelman College
Guyanese-American journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee discusses how her work connects her...
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Colombia's Hot Moment
Much is riding on the race to identify and distribute the biological diversity of areas occupied by...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Cuban Migrants Lose a Foothold in the U.S.
Cubans Lost in Transit Rolando Arrieta and Luis Trelles Grantees Luis Trelles and Rolando Arrieta...
October 24, 2017
![Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-05-17/img_2074.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=HDdxw1f- "Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were protected forests. Image by Lisa Palmer. Colombia, 2017.")
