Posted by Adriaan Alsema | May 18, 2011 | News
Colombia’s capital Bogota has been cut off from a large part of the northeast of the country after a landslide destroyed a bridge connecting the capital with the city of Bucaramanga Tuesday evening. According to media...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 18, 2011 | News
At least 600 Colombian school teachers have been impeded from doing their job over the past year due to threats, according to the country’s largest public school teachers union Fecode. Five of these teachers were...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 18, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos disqualified one of the three Bogota mayor candidates on the shortlist handed to him by Polo Democratico, the political party of suspended mayor Samuel Moreno. Santos’ judicial...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 18, 2011 | News
Eight miners who had been trapped in a mine near Cali following a collapsing shaft, were rescued alive by rescue workers on Tuesday. The workers were able to leave the mine ten hours after the accident. “The emergency...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | May 17, 2011 | Lite
Colombia’s most famous porn star, Esperanza Gomez, does not live in Miami where she does most her work, but in Cali, she told local newspaper El Pais. In an interview with the newspaper, Colombia’s...
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