Hola amigos and friends from hip and dynamic Medellin where in my eighth decade I am working as hard as I was as a 22-year-old Peace Corps volunteer building the…
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Please help the Marina Orth Foundation’s rural robotics champs, from El Carmen de Viboral outside Medellin, Colombia, travel to Tallinn, Estonia, to participate in the 2019 International Robotex Competition from November 26 to December 3. In only their…
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“SO MUCH PAIN STILL EXISTS”: WHY MEDELLÍN BLEW UP PABLO ESCOBAR’S HOUSE
Vanity Fair Maureen Orth April 9, 2019 1:09 pm The mayor of Medellín is sick and tired of the world’s fascination with Pablo Escobar. Twenty-five years after Escobar’s death, the…
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March 1, 2019 The author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO documentary Leaving…
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9:50 AM PST 2/14/2019 by Maureen Orth, Abby Wasserman and Arleen Cheston Photo Courtesy of Cannes ‘Birds of Passage’ The critically lauded film falsely accuses the Peace Corps for starting the drug…
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Arrive at the Microsoft Theater If I gave a speech my first thank you would go to the FX hair and makeup team and Luke who…
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