Posted by Hannah Aronowitz | Feb 15, 2011 | News
A young man, 20, and girl, 3, were wounded when a gunman opened fire in the family’s home in Barranquilla, northern Colombia, but both are in stable condition, newspaper El Heraldo reported Tuesday. One stray bullet ended...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Aronowitz | Feb 15, 2011 | News
Bogota’s District Health Department announces a comprehensive health care plan for displaced Colombians living in the city, Radio Santa Fe reported Tuesday. The new health policy will help the displaced population living...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Aronowitz | Feb 14, 2011 | Economy
Free trade deals with Switzerland and Canada will be “Plan B” in absence of a trade preferences agreement with the U.S., Colombian Trade Minister Sergio Diaz-Granados said on Caracol Radio. The trade minister said...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Aronowitz | Feb 14, 2011 | Culture
Colombian hip-hop fusion group ChocQuibTown use their rise to international acclaim as a platform to speak out on behalf of Afro-Latinos. The trio, who are from the town of Quibdo in the Choco department on Colombia’s...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Aronowitz | Feb 14, 2011 | News
Judicial investigations reveal that the “social controls” put in place by the paramilitary group AUC including shaving girls’ heads and forcing them to do hard labor as punishment for what they considered to be...
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