Mexico’s cocaine comes from Colombia
Claudia López’s column in El Tiempo had an interesting analysis Tuesday. She states that Colombia is no longer a priority for the United States in Latin America, because the…
Claudia López’s column in El Tiempo had an interesting analysis Tuesday. She states that Colombia is no longer a priority for the United States in Latin America, because the…
The former paramilitary warlords in Colombia who have been extradited to the United States are going to testify very soon and are going to give 60 testimonies. Colombia’s Justice and…
We have to stop Plan Colombia, because of its “high political cost for the country’s dignity”, Colombia’s vice-president Francisco Santos said a few days ago in the country’s daily El…
Yesterday I was at the funeral of a peasant who was killed four years ago, probably because he was a leftist political activist. It took his wife four years to…
A lot has been said these days about Out of Captivity, the book of the three American former FARC hostages Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes. Focus has been…
Hugo Chávez won his referendum in Venezuela and Colombia’s president Uribe said: “Me preocupa perpetuar al Presidente, pero tampoco puedo ser políticamente irresponsable”. That means that he is worried to…
February is Barranquilla’s Carnaval month and the city is vibrating with expectation, music, costumes, colors and madness. Cumbia orchestras are moving from bar, to bar, to restaurant, to private house…
Every year the little village of Juan de Acosta – an hour west of the Caribbean town of Barranquilla – chooses its beauty queen and not just any beauty queen,…
Terrible the news about the killings of 17 Awá indians in the south west Nariño region of Colombia. Most probably the FARC did it. If even the former M19 guerrilla member and nowadays…