Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Feb 1, 2013 | News
A surge in violence in the west of Medellin is keeping hundreds of children from attending class because going to school simply has become too dangerous. Government officials are no longer allowed entry in the area, while the...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 30, 2013 | News
Police in the northwest of Colombia on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of killing three husbands in order to collect their life insurance payout. The 45-year-old Dabeiba, Antioquia native was arrested in the municipality of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 29, 2013 | Guests
On Monday January 28, a week after U.S. President Barack Obama officially began his second term, 100 workers protested in front of Colombia’s Ministry of Labor offices throughout Colombia. In Cali, the Afro-Colombian...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 29, 2013 | From the editor
The Colombian government is set to announce international tourism grew in 2012. Before you start celebrating, the real growth is way lower than Latin America as a whole, meaning Colombia is losing ground to its competitors....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jan 28, 2013 | Lite
Colombian singer Shakira has been released from the Spanish hospital where she gave birth to her first son last week, the clinic said on Sunday. Shakira, her boyfriend Gerard Pique, and their newly-born baby boy Milan, were...
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