Mr. Heinz Consul, CEO of Siemens South America, Bogota, Colombia, May 14, 2008.
Instalations of Siemens South America in Bogota, Colombia, May 23, 2008.
Siemens mainly produces electric transformers and engines for machinery.
Exito´San Martin supermarket general manager Leon Martinez poses at the store in Bogota, January 24, 2013.
Grupo Éxito is Colombia's leading grocer. The group which gets its name from the Spanish word for 'success', oversees a hypermarket business.
As of March 2012 there were 418 locations in more than 60 cities in Colombia and Uruguay; Almacenes Exito represents roughly half the stores with the other half branded Surtimax, Carulla, (supermarkets). The group is owned by France's Groupe Casino.
Customers at the shopping mall San Martin where an Exito supermarket, with the same name, is located at, Bogota, Colombia, January 24, 2013.
Grupo Éxito is Colombia's leading grocer. The group which gets its name from the Spanish word for 'success', oversees a hypermarket business.
As of March 2012 there were 418 locations in more than 60 cities in Colombia and Uruguay; Almacenes Exito represents roughly half the stores with the other half branded Surtimax, Carulla, (supermarkets). The group is owned by France's Groupe Casino.
Early morning nurse Stefanie gets ready for a days work at her bethroom in the town of Barranquita, Peru, September 19, 2012.
Stefanie has worked as a profesional nurse in Barranquita and nearby health posts in the region for 11 months. With one more month to go and retake her life back in the capital, Lima, she explains that the experience of working with rural communities has changed her life for ever. "I decided to come to the jungle to understand the needs of the population and to give them information to access to a better life".
Nurse Stefanie Suclupe vaccinates Mr. Liborio Cachique with an anti tetanus vaccine in the hamlet of Ushpayacu Grau, Peru, September 18, 2012.
Stefanie has worked as a profesional nurse in Barranquita and nearby health posts in the region for 11 months. With one more month to go and retake her life back in the capital, Lima, she explains that the experience of working with rural communities has changed her life for ever. "I decided to come to the jungle to understand the needs of the population and to give them information to access to a better life".
A view of Cartagena de indias from the roof top of the boutique hotel "Agua" in Cartagena, one of the most prestigious in the city, elected by Conde Nast one of the best in the world of its type. Colombia, May 30, 2008.
A french tourist descends rapel style the water falls of Fonce river in Santander, Colombia, June 6. 2008.
Santander is now a days called the extreme sports sate in Colombia because of the high level adventure activities on its rivers and mountains.
A seed called Ox Eyes is displayed by a tourist in the Tayrona national park, Colombia, June 1, 2008.
The seed guides say server to lower high blood pleasure.
A beach in the Tayrona national park, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, June 1, 2008.
Runers gets ready to run the ten kilometers race patrocinated by Nike, Bogota, Colombia, August 31, 2008.
Nike organizes "The Human race" in 25 cities accross the world where one million people race "To honor human potential".
In Bogota 75.000 runers bought their tickets to participate in just three days.
Arhuaco indigenous Amado Villafaña during a boat trip in the Aguarico river, Ecuador, June 3rd, 2011.
A videographer, Amado Villafaña is an Arhuaco indian and director of The Zhingoneshi film team during a journey to meet the Cofan people in eastern Ecuador. The film, directed by Pablo Mora (Not Zhingoneshi), is an effort to know the Cofan culture and their traditions in their habitat.
Mr. Lorenzo Criollo, aTaita or Shaman Cofan or A'I (which means people, their name in their tongue) in the jungle near the Aguarico river, Ecuador, June 2, 2011.
The Cofans are one of the oldest surviving indigenous cultures of the Amazonian rain forest. They live in their traditional homeland on the banks of the large rivers of what is now northeastern Ecuador and southeastern Colombia. Fewer than 1,000 Cofan remain, with most living in Ecuador. Hunters, fishers, and subsistence agriculturists, they are famous for their efforts to protect their rain forest home from the oil industry, mining companies, and colonists. Cofan are craftsmen and naturalists, with a deep understanding and appreciation of their environment.
Mrs. Gladys Suarez, 54, at home in Medellin, Colombia, November 5, 2014.
Mrs. Suarez is affected with alzheimers disease to the point that it is hard for her to recognize people and function on her own. Her husband, Jean, not shown in picture, is taking care of her after 29 years of marriage.
A view of the fishermen«s community in the neighborhood of Santa Fe with the TC Buen port as a background, Buenaventura, Colombia, April 9, 2014.
Buenaventura, the most important port city in Colombia has become a place where two criminal gangs, THE URABEOS and LA EMPRESA are fighting for the control of businesses and drug trafficking by murdering each other as well as the local population that resist them.
A view of the neighborhhod of Santa Fe with the TC Buen private port in Buenaventura, Colombia, June 2, 2014.
The neighborhood is required by the the port officials to expand its operations and neighbors fear that they will be expelled from their homes to make this possible.
Buenaventura, the most important port city in Colombia has become a place where two criminal gangs, THE URABEÑOS and LA EMPRESA and other smaller groups are fighting for the control of businesses and drug trafficking by murdering each other as well as the local population who denied them of this control.
CTI or forensic policemen at a crime scene where a youngster was buried after being murdered, Buenaventura, Colombia, June 4, 2014.
Buenaventura, the most important port city in Colombia has become a place where two criminal gangs, THE URABEÑOS and LA EMPRESA and other smaller groups are fighting for the control of businesses and drug trafficking by murdering each other as well as the local population who denied them of this control.
People cover their noses during a forensic police investigation in which a youngster was hacked to pieces and buried on shallow grave in Buenaventura, Colombia, June 4, 2014.
Buenaventura, the most important port city in Colombia has become a place where two criminal gangs, THE URABEÑOS and LA EMPRESA and other smaller groups are fighting for the control of businesses and drug trafficking by murdering each other as well as the local population who denied them of this control.
A man walks with a chain saw in the peace community of Puente nayero, Buenaventura, Colombia, June 5, 2014.
The community was established nearly a month ago to prevent armed illegal groups from entering it.
Buenaventura, the most important port city in Colombia has become a place where two criminal gangs, THE URABEÑOS and LA EMPRESA and other smaller groups are fighting for the control of businesses and drug trafficking by murdering each other as well as the local population who denied them of this control.
A graffiti in a gas station that serves boats in the Atrato river in the hamlet of Las Mercedes, Colombia, November 19, 2014.
The hamlet was the scenario of the capture of general Ruben Alzate by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, militias a week ago. Alzate is the highest in military rank ever captured in Colombian modern war.
An Embera family on the Bete river, Chocó, Colombia, November 21, 2014.
A rain-drenched pocket of rivers and jungles that’s overwhelmingly home to Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups, this province became ground zero in Colombia’s 50-year-old struggle against Marxist guerrillas last week, when FARC rebels snatched Colombian Army General Ruben Dario Alzate and two others from the riverside enclave of Las Mercedes. The capture triggered the suspension of two-year old peace negotiations between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which had been underway in Havana, Cuba, as the two sides hash out the terms of the general’s release.
Mr. Pedro Hurtado arriving in Quibdo, Choco´s capital, Colombia, November 21, 2014.
A rain-drenched pocket of rivers and jungles that’s overwhelmingly home to Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups, this province became ground zero in Colombia’s 50-year-old struggle against Marxist guerrillas last week, when FARC rebels snatched Colombian Army General Ruben Dario Alzate and two others from the riverside enclave of Las Mercedes. The capture triggered the suspension of two-year old peace negotiations between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which had been underway in Havana, Cuba, as the two sides hash out the terms of the general’s release.
A view of Quibdo, Choco´s capital, with most streets non paved and barely running water Colombia, November 21, 2014.
A rain-drenched pocket of rivers and jungles that’s overwhelmingly home to Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups, this province became ground zero in Colombia’s 50-year-old struggle against Marxist guerrillas last week, when FARC rebels snatched Colombian Army General Ruben Dario Alzate and two others from the riverside enclave of Las Mercedes. The capture triggered the suspension of two-year old peace negotiations between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which had been underway in Havana, Cuba, as the two sides hash out the terms of the general’s release.
Writer Dan Molinski´s hand after being submerged on an oil puddle left after an National Liberation Army or ELN in spanish guerrilla attack, Puente China, Colombia, September 2, 2014.
U´wa people walk over a bridge called Hamaca or the Hammock over the Cobaria river. A three hundred meter long hunging bridge that conects communities on both sides of the river Colombia, september 2, 2014.
The U´wa indigenous group have being fighting oil exploration and extraction on their territory for decades, since they they think oil is mother´s land blood and therefore it is forbiden to bleed her out. On March 25th of this year The National Liberation Army, ELN, (spanish) attacked with explosives the pipeline, managed and owned by Ecopetrol, in Puente China. The indigenous group stopped workers from repairing the duct for a couple of months rendering the company a huge loss.
An U´wa girl wears a traditional COCORA, or mask made of BUKARKAYA leaves over her head, Cedeño, Colombia, September 3, 2014.
The ¨Mask¨ is worn by U´wa girls before they reach puberty between dawn and dusk every day.
The U´was have being fighting oil exploration and extraction on their territory for decades since they they think oil is mother´s land blood and therefore it is forbiden to bleed it out. After the National Liberation Army or ELN, spanish, illegal armed group attack on the pipeline of Oxy in Puente China the indigenous group stopped workers from repairing the duct for a couple of months rendering the company a huge loss.
Coal mine named ¨El Hatillo¨, Lomas de Calentura, Colombia, May 24, 2013.
The mine owned in part by Goldman Sachs subsidiary CNR (Colombian Natural Resources), forced an illegal work stoppage on workers at another of their mines, named ¨La Francia¨, to frustrate an approaching union-led collective bargaining negotiation.
Mr. Juan Redondo an educational Sintramienergetica union member and mining trucks operartor sits on front of a truck in ¨La Francia¨, a coal mine, near the town of Lomas de Calentura, Colombia, May 25, 2013.
The mine owned in part by Goldman Sachs subsidiary CNR, La Francia, forced an illegal work stoppage on workers to frustrate an approaching union-led collective bargaining negotiation.
The Union then decided to occupy the mine instalations in order to stop the mine from hiring workers outside the syndicate.
Mrs. Cenaida Mercado shows the state of the matresses at the ¨Child´s and maternity¨ clinic in the town of Lomas de Calenturas, Colombia, May 26, 2013.
People complain that despite all the money the coal mines produce, none of this money comes to town or its people. ¨The streets are a disgrace, pollution surround us permanently and, look at the mattresses in the clinic. We should have an hospital here in town instead of this¨. Complains Mrs. Mercado.
Illegal immigrants ride a cargo train towards the city of Ixtepec, Mexico, September 22, 2011.
Thousands of migrants ride these trains every year in Mexico in hopes to get closer to the border in the USA.
An illegal immigrant sits on a truck after being arrested by inmigration police officers, in Tenosique, Mexico, September 19, 2011.
When arrested these people face inmediate deportation towards their contries.
Mr. Yamil Gonzales, 45, is tended by fellow Cuban immigrants after he fainted on a jungle path while walking towards the border with Panama, Colombia, March 28, 2015.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
Immigrants from South East Asia traverse the Cacarica river in Colombia in order to reach the Panamanian border. Cacarica, Colombia, December 24, 2014.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
An african illegal immigrant sleeps at Masdil camp, a detention center for, mainly, illegal immigrants from Africa and South East Asian citizens who enter Panama through the Darien gap jungle in Colombia. Meteti, Panama, March 31, 2015.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
Mrs. Arianna Sierra, 31, and her husband Divier, 23, rest at border police headquarters in La Miel, Panama, March 27, 2015.
Mrs. Sierra is 4 months pregnant and almost lost her baby while at sea and crossing a jungle path in order to enter Panama.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
New arrivals, mainly from Sri Lanka, at Masdil camp in Meteti, Panama, March 31, 2015.
the camp is set up to keep ilegal immigrants, mainly from South East Asians and African citizens who enter Panama illegaly through the Darien jungle.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
A partial view of The Darien gap mountains from the beach of La Miel, Panama, March 29, 2015.
For the last three years Panama has experienced a huge migration wave of Cuban, Somalis, Nepalese, Pakistanies and Sri Lankan citizens who first arrive in Ecuador, Brazil or Guyana and then move by land throughout Colombia to arrive in Panama where they get transit visas and then head up north of the continent towards USA.
