Colombia may have failed to qualify for the World Cup, but pop stars Shakira and Juanes, made the country proud on Thursday, as they performed at the massive World Cup…
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Independent researchers claim that widespread fraud took place in the May 30 first round of Colombia’s presidential elections, after comparing the vote counts from individual polling stations with those published…
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As the March 14th congressional elections draw closer, media outlets in the Valle del Cauca Department are charging candidates for interviews and campaign coverage, breaking journalistic ethics and blurring the…
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Some 100 Hipoppotamus supporters staged a brief flash mob in Bogota´s parquet de la 93 Thursday evening. Wearing hippo masks and dancing to ‘the lion sleeps tonight’, demonstrators protested the…
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Most guidebooks on Colombia ignore the massive chunk of this country that lies to the east of the Andes Mountains. We cannot deny that guerrilla groups still hold sway in some of the…
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Santa Cruz del Islote, unofficially the world’s most crowded island, is an hour’s boatride from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. It has some 90 houses and a population of around 700 people,…
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Hundreds of dance troupes took to public squares in fifteen of Colombia´s departments Wednesday to celebrate International Dance Day. The Ministry of Culture backed performances of break dance, salsa, tango…
Villavicencio, the gateway to the Llanos will once again host the “encuentro mundial de coleo” or Coleo World Cup from October 10 to October 12. Coleo is a sport practiced…
The good thing about cockfighting is that you get to see everything that happens behind the scenes. Just stand by the bar at the Club Gallistico San Miguel, and you…
Engineers in Bucaramanga presented Colombia´s first electric car to a proud audience of journalists, politicians and academics Saturday. The Salamandra –Spanish for Salamander- is a two seat car the size…