Nadja Drost

GlobalPost

Nadja Drost covers Colombia for GlobalPost. She has reported in print, radio and video from New York, South America and West Africa.

Nadja directed and produced the documentary “Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow,” which was broadcast on television in several countries and picked up awards in North and South America, Europe and Africa.

Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Time.com, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Albany Times Union, among others, and has aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and is from Canada.

Colombia’s FARC frees journalist, with a message for France

The leftist rebels held Romeo Langlois for 33 days. Now the reporter says the rebels want him to rally France’s Socialist president to broker peace in Colombia.

Colombia’s FARC frees journalist, with a message for France

Colombia rock music

Colombia rock music

Making the next big Latin film

Making the next big Latin film

FARC leader's death could delay peace

FARC leader's death could delay peace

To win the war, Colombia needs female fighters to lay down their arms

To win the war, Colombia needs female fighters to lay down their arms

Colombian town rocks out

Puerto Wilches is one of the last places you would expect to hear rock music.

Colombian town rocks out
The World

Audio slideshow: Gay pride at carnival

The coastal Colombian city of Barranquilla throws one of the biggest parties in the world.

Audio slideshow: Gay pride at carnival
The World

Colombia: Entire villages flee as drug gangs move in

Paramilitary fighters have regrouped as drug gangs and are terrorizing villagers.

Colombia: Entire villages flee as drug gangs move in

Villages take flight

Villages take flight
The World

Slideshow: Spreading the bamboo gospel

A Colombian architect is uprooting notions of what we can do with bamboo.

Slideshow: Spreading the bamboo gospel
The World

The hunt for Colombia's most-wanted insurgent

The FARC's leader is believed to be hiding among the mountains of central Colombia.

The hunt for Colombia's most-wanted insurgent
The World

Colombia: US aid may have sparked civilian killings

Colombian army accused of killing civilians and labeling them guerrillas.

Colombia: US aid may have sparked civilian killings
The World

Where Chavez's tirades matter

Colombians on the border are caught between two spatting presidents and a devastated economy.

Where Chavez's tirades matter
The World

Has Colombia found its Obama?

An unconventional politician is trying to become Colombia's next president by mimicking Obama's tactics.

Has Colombia found its Obama?

On the Colombian campaign trail

On the Colombian campaign trail