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Jessica Camille Aguirre

Jessica Camille Aguirre, a journalist specializing in Latin America, is a visiting scholar at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the recipient of the 2018 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, n+1, Smithsonian, Outside, Guernica, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. (November 2019)

After the War, Before the Flood, in Colombia

To many in Colombia, there was something eerily familiar about the seemingly inexorable progress of a big scheme built in the name of national necessity on a pile of corpses.

November 13, 2019

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