Posted by Benjy Hansen-Bundy | Jan 28, 2013 | News
A 14-year-old girl on Sunday night leaped to her death from the ninth story of her apartment complex in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali after her father overruled her plans for plastic surgery. According to local media,...
Read MorePosted by Benjy Hansen-Bundy | Jan 25, 2013 | Cartagena
Paul Schrader, writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ and Willem Dafoe are among the big names at the 53rd International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias. The festival, which runs through January 27, exhibits selections from...
Read MorePosted by Benjy Hansen-Bundy | Jan 25, 2013 | News
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Friday dispatched 430 soldiers to the troubled Valle del Cauca department in western Colombia hours after the army thwarted an attack. In the last month, at least 120 murders have...
Read MorePosted by Benjy Hansen-Bundy | Jan 25, 2013 | News
All eyes are on four Colombian politicians who are aiming to keep the 2014 presidency out of the hands of anyone associated with the divisive former president Alvaro Uribe. German Vargas Lleras, the current minister of housing,...
Read MorePosted by Benjy Hansen-Bundy | Jan 25, 2013 | News
South African police apprehend a Colombian man at an airport in Johannesburg with an estimated $100,000 worth of cocaine hidden in his shoes and jacket linings. The alleged suspect, Jonathan Stiven Nieto Biscue, was disembarking...
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