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...Naked, hooded bodies lie entangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in women's red underwear. The paintings need no titles. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style itself. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his U.S. soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings on Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came...
Ongoing through June 30. “Life is a Catwalk (La Vida es una Pasarela),” featuring the work of Colombian artist Jaime Ávila. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 61 Kirkland Street. Free...
...CARDINAL CASTRILLON HOYOS, 75, whose star is said to be fading but who nevertheless has a compelling personal history. Quite like John Paul, this man from Medelln, Colombia, has displayed courage, tenacity and a willingness--even an eagerness--to mix church and state. He has gone deep into Colombian jungles to mediate between leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, and once showed up at the house of cocaine king Pablo Escobar disguised as a milkman. Revealing himself, Castrilln Hoyos implored Escobar to confess his sins, which, presumably at some considerable length, the vicious gangster...
...highlights Catalina Sandino Moreno--in her first professional role--stars as the willful Maria, a young Colombian who, faced with few options in life, decides to become a drug mule. Director Joshua Marston's commentary on the DVD provides a historical backdrop, talking extensively about the drug trade in the U.S. and Colombia...
...ARRESTED. DAGOBERTO FLOREZ, 47, an alleged leader of the largest Colombian drug cartel and one of the most wanted alleged drug traffickers in the U.S., which offered a $5 million bounty for his capture; outside Medellin, Colombia. Florez is reputed to be one of nine capos of the Norte del Valle drug cartel, an organization accused by American authorities of exporting some $10 billion worth of cocaine to the U.S. over the past 15 years, half of the country's cocaine supply...