Posted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Mar 12, 2012 | News
Six former policemen are marching over 550 miles demanding fair pensions, wages and benefits for public workers. The group will make the daunting walk from a small town in the Narino department to Colombia’s capital,...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Mar 12, 2012 | Bogota
A massive new Eurostar hotel will be built in downtown Bogota by 2014 said the Spanish hotel giant Hotusa Monday. Hotusa, in conjuction with Colombian building company BD Bacata, is building the luxury hotel complex which it...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Mar 12, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon is the only candidate from the Americas in the running to lead the International Labor Organization (ILO), after nominations closed last week. Garzon has support from Latin...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Mar 12, 2012 | News
The Colombian meteorology group Ideam announced Monday that the 2012 rainy season had officially begun. The director of Ideam, Ricardo Lozano told local media that rain in southwest and central Colombia will continue to increase...
Read MorePosted by Mary Cecelia Bittner | Mar 9, 2012 | Culture
One of Colombia’s hottest bands, Monsieur Perine, released a new video this Thursday A self-described “experimental laboratory of popular music with an old school spirit,” the Bogota-based group is led by...
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