Saying no to beggars and vendors
(photo: Mauricio Valenzuela Tovar) There’s not a yard you can walk in Colombian cities without being asked for money by a beggar or to buy something you don’t need. In…
(photo: Mauricio Valenzuela Tovar) There’s not a yard you can walk in Colombian cities without being asked for money by a beggar or to buy something you don’t need. In…
There is nothing more Colombian than arepas and appearances of the Holy Virgin. The appearance of the mother of the lord Jesus Christ on a burnt arepa was to be…
There’s more important elections than those of the United States. In Cartagena two dozen beauties are contesting to become Miss Colombia. In order to make the right choice, it’s best…
Belgian Peter van Dijck started a small and simple website about Colombia when he was there in 1998. Ten years later, Poorbuthappy.com and its forum have become a leading authority…
The campaign team of Barack Obama, U.S. presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, has a command center in Turbaco, Bolívar, probably without knowing it. The village’s former mayor coordinates the…
“I am only asking for respect, that they accept me the way I am and that they let me enter the school with the uniform. What I have are Scottish…
The only thing more bacano than Christmas is the annual Miss Colombia election. The well stretched election of who will represent Colombia’s beauty at Miss Universe in Venezuela takes place…
The biggest love of Natalia Paris, widely considered one of Colombia’s sexiest models, was a wealthy (former) drug trafficker until he mysteriously disappeared in 2001. He is now featured in…
It doesn’t happen every day in Colombia. Actually, it probably never ever happens, but in Bayunca near Cartagena a cattle farmer discovered one of his piglets was hermaphrodite. The pig…