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...Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) buzzed with the oohs and aahs of arsty Harvard affiliates at last Wednesday’s opening of photographer Jorge Mario Munera’s exhibition, “Portraits of an Invisible Country.” The international attendees sipped wine as they toured Colombia through the insightful pictures and intimate write-ups of the native artist...
Munera’s show represents a journey through an unknown country and came as a culmination of two decades of travel throughout Colombia. Each of the five sections of the exhibit displays both a geographical region of Colombia and a different photographic approach, beginning with the Pacific region and the “studio medium shot” and ending with the Amazonian region and the “candid close-up.” This careful, if not obvious, organization highlights the diversity of Munera’s methods and subjects...
...both taking and exhibiting his photographs, Munera aims to encourage people to come out of the solitude caused by recent political events in Colombia. He seeks to recreate eroded public space in which Colombians as well as foreigners may see the true spirit of a country that has otherwise become invisible...
Seventy percent of the flowers sold in floral shops and supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired...
...three candidates said they were strongly opposed to U.S. involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia...