Mockery comes easily; the harder work is figuring out what to do for the people at the center of the story.

Adriana E. Ramírez's new nonfiction book "The Violence" is built around oral histories of life in Colombia through the 20th century.

Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses💥

When I first arrived in Pittsburgh almost 20 years ago, I intended to stay for exactly three years. I even told my nonprofit employer back in central Texas...

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Adriana Ramírez opens her family album to tell the story of “La Violencia en Colombia”

A vivid portrait of the civil conflict of the 1940s and 1950s — and how it opened the way for the armed groups that still control parts of the country

A nation has at least one crucial moment in every cycle of its history—a moment in which a hope is extinguished for a generation—the kind of rare moment that defines its history and the memory of i…

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Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.

As a child, I once asked my grandmother why she did not forgive or forget, given her fierce Catholicism. We were playing cards on the bed in her large, white bedroom in Barranquilla, surrounded by …

In the summer of 2007, I went to Colombia to figure out my MFA thesis. I was working on a master’s in nonfiction writing, and after workshopping...

A family’s experience is bounded and warped by the violence and instability that overtook Colombia in the last half of the 20th century.

In the acknowledgment section of her new book, “The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War,” Adriana E. shares a maxim from her dad: “Family...

"The Violence My Family's Colombian War" is a family memoir about civil war, personal betrayal, and what loves and lives are possible in a time and place of unimaginable violence.

In 1948, a country burst into civil war. Someone assassinated the Liberal Party’s presidential candidate and after people rioted in response, the...