Category: Culture


How hostility to the press ended up isolating Colombia’s government
Colombia’s outgoing President Ivan Duque has divided media between allies and enemies, which...
Colombia’s least honest media personalities
Some of Colombia’s media personalities apparently believe that propaganda is journalism and...
How Colombia’s far-right TV personalities get people killed
Colombia’s migration agency illegally detained and expelled a German citizen after media...
Colombia: a country with no history of its civilizations
Historians agree that explorer Christopher Columbus never “discovered” the Americas,...
Colombia turns on media amid barrage of lies and propaganda
Public support for Colombia’s mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict...
Colombia’s television news: 16 minutes of apocalyptical horror
Television network RCN needed less than three minutes to imply that armed conflict victims may be...
Colombia’s anti-government protests | Part 2: fighting hate speech with K-pop
Colombia’s anti-government protesters hilariously disrupted a social media offensive by...
White supremacy in Colombia | Part 3: ‘the negroes multiply by themselves’
Colombia’s ethnic discrimination reached the point that 31% of people who identified...
Colombia to counter independent press with state news
Colombia’s government reportedly wants to spend more than $80 million on state news in its...
Colombia’s countercultures: the Beat Generation’s bad trip
Counterculture icon William S. Burroughs traveled to Colombia in 1953 to try ayahuasca, a drug...
How bankers turned Colombia’s mass media into mafia apologists
Colombia’s most powerful bankers have converted some of the country’s leading news...
Colombia’s countercultures: Bogota’s rock and roll gangs
Rock and roll was quickly associated with juvenile delinquency after arriving in Colombia as the...
