Posted by Marguerite Cawley | Apr 19, 2011 | Culture
The city of Medellin is hosting the country’s First International Chamber Music Festival, in which over 100 city youth will be provided with instruction by acclaimed musicians, according to the city’s culture...
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Colombian hip hop duo Tres Coronas will release their new album “La Musica es mi Arma” on April 28. “This is a clear message of resistance,” the Latin urban music group said of the album, the title of...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Apr 19, 2011 | News
The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has scheduled a march to protest recurrent death threats made against journalists by criminal bands. According to Spanish news agency EFE, members of FECOLPER, an organization...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Apr 19, 2011 | News
Medellin authorities have arrested ten alleged gang members who operated in the poor west of the city, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The nine men and one woman, detained with the assistance of the police group GOES,...
Read MorePosted by Marguerite Cawley | Apr 18, 2011 | News
U.S. authorities have moved forward a series of 200 proceedings in investigations into over a dozen ex-paramilitary leaders detained in the U.S. since 2008, Colombian media reported Monday. After meeting Monday with her U.S....
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