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Santos to spend night in ‘free housing’ apartment

President Juan Manuel Santos will spend his Friday night in one of the apartments destined for Colombia’s poorest citizens as part of the government’s free housing initiative. In 2012 the Santos government committed to the...

46th Vallenato Festival returns to Valledupar

The Vallenato Legend festival, one of Colombia’s biggest popular culture events, will return to the city of Valledupar in the northern Colombian department of Cesar between April 26 and 30. The festival was founded in 1968...

Colombia crowns new Vallenato King

Colombia Monday named a new Vallenato King at the 45th annual Festival de la Leyenda Vallenato in Valledupar. Fernando Rangel Molina took the crown five years after winning the Junior King title at the event in northern Cesar...

Vallenato hero Diomedes Diaz hospitalized with pneumonia

Famous Colombian Vallenato singer Diomedes Diaz and his family have been hospitalized with pneumonia in the northern department of Cesar, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The singer was brought to a medical center in...

Traces of feces found in north Colombian prison food

Colombia’s Congress will call for the closure of a prison in Valledupar, the capital of the northeast Colombian department of Cesar, after discovering appalling conditions that include a lack of water and traces of feces...

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