Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Dec 9, 2010 | Culture
Colombian pop star Shakira features in a commercial for a Spanish producer of sparkling wine. Shakira appears in the video performing “Sale el sol,” from the album by the same name. The commercial is the bubbly wine...
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Colombia will be present at the Noble Peace Price ceremony in Norway at which jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be honored, the country’s foreign minister said Thursday. According to foreign minister Maria Angela...
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Colombia’s second largest rebel group the ELN on Wednesday proposed a temporary ceasefire to facilitate the relief of victims of floods and landslides. In an “open letter to the victims of the rainy season,”...
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Colombia’s national police commander General Oscar Naranjo told then-U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield that he personally suspected Uribe’s former chief of staff and former presidential advisor of having ordered the...
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Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe was secretly seeking direct peace talks with the leaders of the FARC and ELN, while the FARC sought contact with the U.S., leaked diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. embassy in...
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