8 July - Pueblo Nuevo
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
El Charco, Colombia
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Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
El Charco, Colombia
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
El Charco, Colombia
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
Narino, Colombia
Our route through the southern Colombian Andes to the Rio Tapaje.
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
Sabieh Fayhaa walks half a kilometer for clean water in Chikook, a neigborhood that is home to about 650 displaced families in western Baghdad. People in the neighborhood say they have no access to schools and medical care and that they have received no aid from the government or organizations such as the Iraqi Red Crescent.
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
When I ask Baghdadis about whether their neighborhoods are safe, they do not say, "It is okay, the Iraqi police or army are there." They don't mention the US military. The only ones who have told me it is safe have said that things are okay "because of the Jeish al-Mehdi." This goes for an increasing number of neighborhoods, especially in Rusafa (East Baghdad).
As the months wear on since the invasion of Iraq, many of the more than one million displaced persons inside the country are virtually receiving no help from the Iraqi government.
Richard Rowley, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq
until i picked up a camera, i didn't know how to see.
pupils dilate in this strange early dusk.
a damp taste to the air behind the sand storm.
in the shallows of my focus the world deepens into texture.
color rushes in like bruises blossoming in pale skin.
reds and greens.
blue camouflage - the color of twilight among the date-palms.
he waves us off the road.
gun metal clicks against safety-glass.
tattered papers pushed through the window.
We arrived and found a group of campesinos living in an old gymnasium in town. Many of them were from Pueblo Nuevo, a town an hour upriver that was caught in fierce fighting between FARC and the Army a few months ago. They also told us that the guerillas helped them grow coca and they were afraid to return to their town. Their situation has definitely gone from bad to worse. We made a trip the next day to Pueblo Nuevo to see if there was anyone left...
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
El Charco, Colombia
El Charco sits on a bend in the Tapaje river, a good sized town that is home to a growing population of displaced people from upriver. It is a violent and unpredictable place, filled with informers for the FARC and a heavy military presence. El Charco is poor and people have little or no civic services. The mayor told us that the city has gone without a supply of fresh water for more than two months.
Carlos Avila Gonzales and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
El Charco, Colombia
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
Tumaco, Colombia
Carlos Avila Gonzalez and Phillip Robertson, for the Pulitzer Center
Pasto, Bolivia