The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.” This is a ...

In Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet,” Oscar Restrepo (Ubeimar Rios) is a failed Colombian writer who keeps a photo of the author José Asunción Silva above his mantle. Silva died at age 30, and even Oscar ...

The plane vanished near Colombia’s eastern border, and the search was hindered by dense jungle terrain and adverse weather. A police plane sprays herbicides over coca fields in El Tarra, in the ...