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FD #3: At Tourism's Fragile Frontier Caught in the tourism wave, these remote villages in the Colombian Andes face the Faustian choice between promise and preservation.

Your after-work read has landed | For this article we spent a week in the Colombian Andes to map out the good, the bad, and the ugly when tourism comes to town.

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In Colombia, that’s code for criminal governance. Understandably, locals didn’t say much about who the other authority was, but the next day we came across ELN graffiti in an abandoned building on a small but important route connecting the Llanos to Cordillera Oriental

Field Notes | Boyacá, Colombia| Cycling through the paramos on 64 (Socha-Sacama), we were warned off wild camping by local who told us that “police are not the only authority here.” 🪡 1/2

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