If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."

In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.