Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 2, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with the country’s highest military officials Friday to discuss the apparent come-back of guerrilla groups, who have increased their attacks on security forces, politicians and...
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Former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa and former President Alvaro Uribe met Friday, officializing Uribe’s support for Peñalosa, who in recent polls showed a comfortable lead in his run to become the next mayor of...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2011 | Culture
This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. While the institution’s researchers’ van got stuck somewhere in the eastern plains, they recorded some of the local joropo...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2011 | Culture
This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. One Colombian band playing at the festival is La Contundencia. The festival made a video about that afrocolombian brassband that performs...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 1, 2011 | Culture
This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. One expression of Colombian culture not featured on the festival is that that of the artisanal homegardening in Choco, of which the...
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