Explore published stories from Armero, Tolima, Colômbia and nearby.
In November 1985, a lahar from Nevado del Ruiz destroyed Armero. Omayra Sánchez remained trapped in debris for nearly three days. This dossier examines the known hazard, rescue attempts, the pump debate, the photograph, and the disaster’s legacy while separating testimony from medical certainty.
812 km · Ambato
Arrested in Ecuador in 1980, Pedro Alonso López claimed hundreds of killings of children across three countries. That number became a headline, yet a study of prison records identifies four convictions for named victims, combined into a 16-year sentence. This dossier follows the victims, records and gaps obscured by the criminal’s notoriety.
1,677 km · Jonestown
From an interracial Indianapolis church to a Guyanese agricultural settlement, this dossier traces Peoples Temple’s social appeal, relatives’ warnings, Leo Ryan’s visit, and deaths in Jonestown, Port Kaituma, and Georgetown. Records and testimony show why calling all of it “mass suicide” erases children, coercion, and dissent.
1,680 km · Guánica
In 2010, accounts of enormous wings and dead animals brought a search party to an old sugar mill in Guánica, Puerto Rico. The hunt produced testimony, stones thrown by pranksters and a photograph later called a composite. What can the sources actually establish?