The economic meltdown in Venezuela is contributing to Indian children across the border in Colombia dying. Health experts say the Wayuu tribe has been particularly hard-hit. Now let's visit Colombia's ...

La Guajira is the driest and hottest place you will find in Colombia and the home of the legendary Wayuu people. The Wayuu are particularly legendary because the Spanish were never able to conquer ...

If you’ve ever spotted a colourful woven bag on a beach, in a city café, or slung effortlessly over the shoulder of a fashion lover, chances are you’ve seen a Wayuu bag. These eye-catching accessories ...

In partnership with UNICEF, the Halü Foundation and the indigenous Wayúu people of northern Colombia, the Baxter International Foundation is helping bring safe water and sanitation to thousands. The ...

The indigenous Wayúu tribe lives in Colombia’s Guajira desert, most without running water, electricity or decent roads for access to basic necessities. Because their region borders Venezuela, ...

Synonymous in Colombia with extreme poverty and abandonment, the peninsula of La Guajira faces drought and coal dust pollution from one the world’s biggest coal mines. One of the main gateways for ...

The Wayuú Women’s Force, founded in 2006, is an Indigenous organization that denounces the coal mining that has dammed and contaminated rivers, leaving much of La Guajira without water. Members of the ...

Cooperation is at the heart of EPICS at Purdue. A cohort of College of Engineering students spent Spring Break 2023 on a study abroad in La Guajira, Colombia where they supported different local ...

Last night, The Wayuu Taya Foundation celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their humanitarian work improving the lives and preserving the culture of Latin-American indigenous communities with a ...

In a hypnotic opening dance between two would-be lovers, the new film Birds of Passage immediately establishes that it is in no way a typical Colombian drug-war epic. A young woman named Zaida, ...