Hollman Morris: Safe, with Family, at Harvard

Merco Press

Hollman Morris, the 2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow whose intensive reporting on the drug wars in his native Colombia marked him an ally to terrorism by political enemies, is now participating in the Nieman Fellowship program at Harvard. Here’s an interview in the Boston Globe in which he talks about the difficult journey from Bogota to Cambridge, particularly the efforts by Nieman and other groups, including Dart, to ask the U.S. State Department to reverse its decision to deny him a visa. Morris says his wife and two children now have a chance to have normalcy in their lives.

“I want to study the role of the press in processes of reconstruction of the memory of history, reparation and truth, and how in the midst of humanitarian dramas the press gives us a voice and gives visibility to the victims,” Morris says in the Globe interview. “But without a doubt, it will be a time for living a normal family life that [my wife, children and I] have lost out on over the last 10 years.”