La Boquilla

This guide to La Boquilla in Cartagena follows an Afro-Colombian fishing village that tourism money passed by for decades while its own water was disappearing, with maritime authorities logging over three hundred illegal fills and invasions of the Cienaga de la Virgen since 2000. You'll hear a fisherman describe customers refusing his catch over what was being poured into the water, and how, starting around 2018, the paddlers who once worked only for themselves began building something to answer it. It traces how a foundation helped supply kayaks and reach visitors abroad, and how the earnings began moving through the village itself.