As COVID-19 bears down, a spontaneous alliance of techies and health professionals in the city formerly known as Pablo Escobar’s hometown is making promising progress on an urgent medical problem….
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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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“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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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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Maureen’s November 18, 2018 appearance on The Business of Giving radio show hosted by Denver Frederick. Maureen Orth, Founder of the Marina Orth School and Foundation Listen to the Podcast…
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She Was Colombia’s Most-Feared Female Revolutionary. Can She Help It Find Peace? As one of the few women FARC commanders, Elda Neyis Mosquera, also known as “Karina,” has confessed to…
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