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 Teo Ballvé was born in Argentina, has lived most his life in the United States and is now in Bogotá, Colombia. Mostly, he's worked in media focused on Latin America, but now he's an aspiring international man of mystery.
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 Remembering in the Land that Memory Forgot
Essay, Teo Ballvé, Jun 06, 2007
Impunity rides the coattails of amnesia and oblivion. Without memory to link the present with the past, current wrongs seem like historical aberrations, rather than the consequence of accumulated injustice. Authoritarian regimes and their allies know this well and are keen to snuff out those who reflect too thoughtfully on the past. By continually wiping the historical slate clean, they are free to do as they please.
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 Colombia's Women Warriors for Peace
Article, Teo Ballvé, Mar 03, 2007
“C’mon, muchachos, let’s go!” With this abrupt order, Celia Eumesa and a group of Nasa Indians under her command jumped into a van. They drove off in hot pursuit of a handful of guerrillas that had just kidnapped some people from her community in southwest Colombia. Armed with no more than decorative staffs, which they carry to symbolize indigenous authority, they sped behind the guerrillas’ car. A caravan of 60 other Nasas trailed behind her. When they had inched close enough to the car, Celia told her driver to beep the horn to see if the men would pull over. When the guerrillas refused, she told her driver: “Punch it. We have to pass them.”
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 Please Don't Litter, Throw it Out the Window
Essay, Teo Ballvé, Jul 21, 2006
Milk and water sold in plastic bags; a maddening proliferation of papers, receipts, slips, forms and ink stamps; the mysterious absence of stray cats; busy intersections transformed into open-air markets-- what kind of a world is this?
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