Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 23, 2011 | Culture
Members of the afro-colombian community of Bajamar, a slum on the outskirts of the Pacific port city of Buenaventura are keeping their spirits up through their music. The community lives in wooden shacks built on poles and...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 22, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s 30-million-ton-a-year Puerto Brisa port has been delayed to the second half of 2012 for further discussions with local indigenous communities, its president said. The world’s No. 4 coal exporter expects to...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 22, 2011 | Guests
A significant number of landmine victims in Colombia are civilians employed by the government for manual coca eradication work. This scheme is a direct violation of the commitment made by the government in the Ottawa Treaty in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 22, 2011 | News
Former President Alvaro Uribe claimed that he has recovered his Twitter account 33 hours after hackers gained access. “Recovered this media!” Uribe tweeted late Thursday, almost a day and a half after he was hacked....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 22, 2011 | News
A ban on sales of loose cigarettes and tobacco advertising went into effect Thursday in Colombia. The clampdown is part of an anti-tobacco law approved by Congress in June 2009, following a ban on smoking in enclosed public...
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