Posted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Feb 23, 2012 | Economy
Illegal mining is a “cancer that must be removed,” said Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos Thursday. “This criminal practice has not only generated pressures and extortions for legal miners, but it...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Feb 23, 2012 | News
The Colombian government expressed its condolences and offered aid to Argentina Thursday after at least 50 people were killed and over 600 were injured in a train crash in the capital Buenos Aires. In a press release, the...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Feb 23, 2012 | Lite
A man imitated Shakira so perfectly on a popular television talent show that one judge was knocked out of her seat. Shrouded in pink lace, Jonathan Trujillo took the judges and audience by storm on “Colombia’s Got...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Feb 22, 2012 | Bogota
The classic American musical Chicago will be playing at Bogota’s Royal Center theater until March 19. The high energy musical tells the story of two women, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, on deathrow in Chicago in 1920. Their...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Feb 22, 2012 | Culture
A Colombian Depeche Mode cover band consisting of a father and his two young children is an internet sensation. Dicken Schrader and his kids Milah, 8, and Korben, 5, are a Colombian family whose covers of the popular 80’s...
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