Posted by Joey O'Gorman | Nov 20, 2012 | Culture
Medellin is preparing for the highly anticipated arrival of Madonna for next week’s concerts, with reports that 98% of the city’s hotel rooms are full. The 60,000 concert-goers have spent almost $1 million on airline...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Nov 20, 2012 | War and peace
The E.U. on Tuesday welcomed the FARC’s announcement of a two-month unilateral ceasefire, the first truce in more than a decade. A statement issued by the office of High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Nov 20, 2012 | News
Child abuse in Colombia has increased 40% over the past year, reported Radio Caracol on Tuesday. During an event for the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse on Monday, director of the National Pediatrics Federation Carlo...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Nov 20, 2012 | Culture
Colombia rock group Aterciopelados have been given a place in the Latin American top 10 best rock albums of all time by U.S. Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone’s best Latin albums Cafe Tacuba, “Re” (1994)...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Nov 19, 2012 | News
The U.S. brings “inadmissible hypocrisies” to the war against drugs, said former police chief Oscar Naranjo Monday. In a column published by newspaper El Tiempo, Naranjo criticized the U.S. where some states recently...
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