Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 2, 2011 | News
Five adults and two children have been killed Saturday morning just outside of San Vicente del Caguan, a town in the south of Colombia, official sources confimed. According to the army reports, six of the victims were all...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Jul 2, 2011 | News
Music producer Quincy Jones, Colombian pop star Shakira and her country’s President Juan Manuel Santos have teamed up to ask for solidarity and support for Colombia after torrential rains destroyed large parts of the...
Read MorePosted 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...
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