Juan Manuel Santos swore in as Colombia’s new president on Saturday, August 7, promising to improve ties with its Andean neighbors and to continue his predecessor’s tough line against leftist rebels. Santos is a 1988 Nieman Fellow. Read more
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more
The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend his Nieman Fellowship. Read more
Colombian voters on overwhelmingly elected as their new president Juan Manuel Santos, an American-educated former defense minister who oversaw a forceful counterinsurgency against the country’s rebel groups. Santos is a 1988 Nieman Fellow. Read more
