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San Agustin

I will be coming up from ecuador and planning to go to San Agustin. does anyone know if it is faster to get to San Agustin from Popayan or Pasto?

Preparing for the Inca trail

Has anyone ever trekked the Inca trail? If so any advice? the cheapest way to go about it? should I fly into cusco or bus it from lima? pricing? tours?

Colombian Paramilitaries and the United States:

Documents Detail Narco-Paramilitary Connection to U.S.-Colombia Anti-Escobar Task Force http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB243/index.htm

UN calls for probe in Colombia deaths of protestors

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_paramilitary_killings;_ylt=Agw.B_O_9YBpxBdOBah_GP63IxIF Anti-paramilitary protestors being killed, Not like this surprises me. Those that claim paramilitarism does not exist in Colombia anymore should start reading. ...

Slain Colombian Terrorist (Reyes)Held Secret Talks with U.S. Diplomats

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080304/index.htm declassified document from the U.S. national security archives. so much for the policy of not negotiating with terrorists. But we have seen that policy broken before during iran-contra. Now being that Ecuador and Venezuela, held meetings with the FARC to mediate a hostage release and were deemed as "supporting" the FARC for doing so. Does that mean the U.S. is also supporting the FARC with the meeting. I am pretty sure the U ...

Mexican students condemn Colombia raid

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_colombia_rebels;_ylt=AjGhXZYVYJ4pdd30YYlgfBu3IxIF Well maybe those Activists should not have been hanging out with legitimate military targets. That´s why they got their asses blown up. ...

Voices from Colombia

http://www.pixelpress.org/contents/donna/index.html

Colombian drug suspect to be tried in Venezuela

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_drugs;_ylt=AvYuRABfn8QHyfuknPv1GTq3IxIF

Corruption Perceptions Index: Colombia is very low

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2007 Colombia ranks pretty low on the 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Flights from La Guardia NY to Cartagena $492!!!

https://www.spiritair.com

THE ACTUAL LATEST NEWS ON COLOMBIA

Ecuador, Colombia Reach Accord to End Border Dispute (Update1) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEnGEKbYMP0g

NEW YORK MARCH AGAINST VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA

NEW YORK! Contacto: 718-672-0319 Responsable: Comité Against Violence in Colombia Evento: Concentración ante la Mision Permanente de Colombia en las Naciones Unidas, 140 E 57th Street, Lexington Ave. MARCH 6th 2008 Hora: 4:00 PM ...

Great article about Roses

Capitalism at its best! http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=171>1=10931

Non Tourist Nightclubs in Cartagena

I want to know where the real people of Cartagena hang out or go out to dance. I can't imagine they all just go to the tourist areas. Anyone know?

Traveling thru Brazil

I am planning to travel to brazil from Salvador de Bahia south towards Argentina. Anyone know any good destinations in Brazil worht seeing. I am more of an off the beaten path person. If anyone knows a website please let me know. ...

Army Commander Montoya Declassified Record of tie to Colombian Army to Creation of Paramilitary Group

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB223/index.htm

JUST GOT BACK

Well I just got back from Colombia after being there two months. I have only been there for 2-3 weeks at a time so, you can imagine that I had an incredible experience. I will update my travel tips on the travel guides. ...

Cali nightlife, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Can anyone suggest any good spots for Cali nightlife on Thursday, Friday, Saturday´s. I will be here this week end and need some rumba after visiting my overly religious family. does anyone know what night the place called "Orange" is good. thanks ...

AQUI ESTOY

Well I am back in Cali, finally. After spending a spectacular two weeks in southern California , I arrived in in Cali last night. I am just outside of Cali and will probably make it the city tomorrow. My luggage did not arrive last night. Well At least I made it and I just got here. Colombians are great! ...

Place to stay in cartagena

Anyone know a place to stay in cartagena, barranquilla, and santa marta for about $25-35 dollares a day? or 50-60,000 pesos a day.

Last time I went to those places I stayed in really nice hotels and it was such a waste of money for mediocre service and the fact that I ws never there, just to sleep for about 4-5 hours max. ...

Is there a memorial in Colombia too?

Aniversario de muerte de Gaitán
se conmemorará en Caracas

ABN, 6 de abril
Caracas, 6 Abr. ABN.- El próximo lunes 9 de abril, a las diez de la mañana, en la Plaza Bolívar de Caracas, el Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA)-capítulo Venezuela realizará un acto para recordar el asesinato del líder liberal colombiano Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, hace 59 años.
Según informó Jaime Chavarro, coordinador del PDA-capítulo Venezuela, varios grupos de venezolanos, ...

Colombian displaced have friends in Jersey

http://www.bergen.edu/desplazamiento/index.htm

CAMPAÑA GOBAL NO A LAS PATENTES SOBRE SEMILLAS Y ANIMALES DE CR�?A

CAMPAÑA GOBAL NO A LAS PATENTES SOBRE SEMILLAS Y ANIMALES DE CR�?A

http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org

CAMPAÑA GOBAL NO A LAS PATENTES SOBRE SEMILLAS Y ANIMALES DE CR�?A

Detengamos la expropiación de campesinos y cultivadores
La práctica creciente de patentar semillas, tipos de plantas convencionales y razas de animales de cría constituye una expropiación en gran medida de campesinos y cultivadores: los agricultures ya no pued ...

Colombia's Uribe backs army chief against accusations of paramilitary ties

SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

LENGTH: 632 words

HEADLINE: Colombia's Uribe backs army chief against accusations of paramilitary ties

BYLINE: By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer

DATELINE: BOGOTA Colombia

BODY:

President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday rejected allegations in a leaked CIA report that his army chief collaborated extensively with right-wing militias accused of some of the worst atrocities i ...

LA POYA

This video is hilarious! I do not understand half of what they say but it cracks me up.

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Best rates to call a cell phone in Colombia

Does anyone know of a company or calling card that offers good rates to call a Colombian Cell phone?

Thank you

Limewire and Colombia

The article is long but at the bottom the former mayor of Bogota is mentioned.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aI7Vgoya5Bak&refer=home

THE REDS ARE COMING, THE REDS ARE COMING!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/bs_nm/latam_summit_slim_dc;_ylt=AuHPH9DmkpDzz4tgmXoX5AeyBhIF

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela's nationalization of telecommunications and energy companies will not be widely copied in the rest of Latin America because most governments need private investment, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim said on Thursday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently took over telecoms company CANTV and ordered foreign oil majors to give up ownership ...

Colombia: This Little Old Town

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/01/rc_16_columbia.html

There are some interesting replies from people all over the U.S.

Adam smith 101 and drugs

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0305/p01s02-ussc.html?page=2

The artile does not mention colombia or cocaine but it just adds to what the drug culture is like in the U.S. Because I am sorry to have to break it to some, we have a drug culture at all socio-economic levels. ...

Number of unionists killed rose even as homicide rate dropped under Uribe's law-and-order government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_labor_murders;_ylt=AuxfbfHoc72rFjGbfZYMJtC3IxIF

Union organizing can be deadly in Colombia By SERGIO DE LEON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Mar 7, 7:57 AM ET

More than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Colombia over the past six years, by government count, yet the number of those murders solved can be counted on one hand.

Union organizing can be a deadly activit ...

Updated approved FTA Deal with the U.S.

Great trade deal!

For those that thought the Free trade agreement between Colombia and the U.S. was indeed free trade. I don't know how Colombians still allow their government not to care about the best interest of Colombia. Even though the trade agreement was heavily favorable toward the U.S. it just got better, and worse for Colombia.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ar9F83zPhFZQ

Colombia backed down (again, no surprise here co ...

El cuento de los monos

Un grupo de científicos colocó cinco monos en una jaula, en cuyo
centro colocaron una escalera y, sobre ella, un montón de bananas.
Cuando un mono subía la escalera para agarrar las bananas, los
científicos lanzaban un chorro de agua fría sobre los que quedaban en el
suelo.
Después de algún tiempo, cuando un mono iba a subir la escalera, los
otros lo agarraban a palos.
Pasado algún tiempo más, ningún mono subía la escalera, a pes ...

Great story about americans determined to visit colombia.

http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2007/02/11/bogot_to_botero_highway_distress_to_horseback/

Great story about americans determined to visit colombia.

La Boquilla

Anyone has experience here. I read it is close to Cartagena. Is it worth a day trip.

¿Será mudo el pasado?

Juan Alberto Llaguno Betancourt wrote:

LUCHEMOS UNIDOS ANTES QUE SEA TARDE Y NOS QUEDEMOS SIN VIDA

Primero se llevaron el oro y la plata, y dijeron que era la civilización [aunque fue saqueo con genocidio], después contaminaron los ríos con sus fábricas, como en el Riachuelo, y no hicimos nada porque es la libertad de comercio [aunque no exista], también nos metieron una deuda ilegítima, y la pagamos como si nada pasara y no hubiera pobres perjudica ...

Competencia de perros- chiste

Competencia de perros

Estaban un ingeniero, un contador, un químico, un informático y un senador uribista colombiano alardeando sobre la inteligencia de sus perros...

El ingeniero ordenó a su perro: "¡Escalímetro, muestra tus habilidades! "El perro agarró unos ladrillos, unas tablas y se armó el solo una casucha.

Todos admitieron que era increíble.

El contador dijo que su perro podía hacer algo mejor. "¡Cash flow, muestra ...

Competencia de perros- joke

Valentine roses get dipped in chemicals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070212/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_toxic_flowers;_ylt=ApNEqWtucbiCRUAXuLX8sEm3IxIF

Remember this as your buying roses for the over-commercialized Valentines day. LET HEAR IT FOR DOLE FOODS!

What is great about our country is that there are smart people who provide better alternatives. This year think about the young Colombianas who are getting exposed to toxic chemicals, getting paid the minimum, and instead go Organic.

h ...

los Farallones de Cali

Does anyone know what they are? What is there do there?

Sierra nevada snow capped peaks

Are their any tours or guides to the picos de Bolivar or Cristobol Colon? I have not been able to find any info on the internet.

For those who think the Paramilitaries made Colombia "safer".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_land_grab;_ylt=Al9dhk7SS53Mhuosw6VJltC3IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

Advice on footwear

Can someone please suggest what type of footwear a backpacker in Colombia should use? high-top, low-top, hiking boots, hiking sneakers, waterproof?

The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070116/bs_nm/global_economy_survey_dc_1

The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, things like tax rates and property rights. Keep in mind that on eof the authors is the Heritage foundation which is biased to represent conservative right wing ideolgy, but the Wall street journal. I think this incorrectly labeled "Economic Freedom" because economics is a social science and these "freedoms" seem to ...

$100 laptops in Colombia: INTERESTING

This nonprofit group that hopes to bring inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world is now considering the possibility of allowing the $100 machines to be purchased by the general public.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070111/bs_nf/49286

This thing has a Freecharge portable charger, which means wind up charging.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia ...

Reporting you will not find in El tiempo, RCN, or Caracol.

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2534.cfm

Colombia's Student Movement Resists
Elizabeth G. Walsh, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), October 24, 2006

Students of the University of Antioquia try to give flowers to riot police during a May, 2006 protest in Medellin, Colombia, against the recent statements of President Alvaro Uribe relating them with rebel groups. (Photo: Gerardo Gomez / AFP-Getty Images)

On the ...

OUCH! Venezuela tops South America GDP growth 2005: Colombia 6th

http://www.portafolio.com.co/port_secc_online/porta_econ_online/2006-12-15/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR_PORTA-3367705.html

Argentina and Venezuela enjoyed the highest GDP growth in South America in 2005. Venezuela and Argentina are run by governments, which our U.S. governement labels as Leftist. Meaning they have more opposition toward the "Washington Consensus" This is the list in order by GDP growth.

Venezuela, 9
Argentina 7.5
Peru 6.7
Urugu ...

I am not buying Del Monte products.

I am not buying Del Monte products. I just wanted to say that, even though I did not buy their products anyway. I rather have certified organic or produce from Trader Joes and Wholefoods. The way I see it, you know how we get blamed for financing terror in Colombia by consuming cocaine. Well in this case buying from Del Monte indirectly finances terror as well. (Even though it is terror in which Uribe looks the other way). Yes, it is only allegations, but All of us know that since the late ...

Mud Baths

Anyone know where to go mud bathing in Colombia? I heard there are a few spots.

Let me get this Straight

This is a Guerilla website, RIGHT?

http://www.movimientodevictimas.org/

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