A town in Colombia’s embattled Catatumbo fights to keep children in school
At an abandoned airstrip in Tibú, a town in Colombia’s northeastern Catatumbo region, Jaime Botero dons a bright Hawaiian shirt and shorts. Surrounded by family and colleagues, the president of the local Association of Communal Action Boards (ASOJUNTAS) explains that the town of roughly 50,000 has reached a tense calm after weeks of violent conflict….