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In the USA Colombians are switching to Republican, over Hillary and TLC
http://www2.nysun.com/article/74448?page_no=2
With the crowds and the traffic is living in Medellin or Bogta worth it ?
Also now with the US dollar below the 1,800 mark . the cost of living has risen even higher in Colombia's two most expensive towns.
Colombian Peso Breaks 1,800 Per Dollar for 1st Time Since 1999
Colombian Peso Breaks 1,800 Per Dollar for 1st Time Since 1999 By Andrea Jaramillo April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's peso rose to its highest since July 1999, exceeding 1,800 per dollar, on speculation investment will keep pouring into the country amid an eight-year- old economic expansion. Colombia's economy expanded 7.5 percent in 2007, the fastest pace since 1978. Foreign direct investment rose 40 percent to $9.03 billion last year. In the year through March 19, it has increased 25 p ...
1.00 USD = 1,792.11 COP
Live rates at 2008.04.09 16:08:20 UTC Live rates at 2008.04.09 16:08:20 UTC 1.00 USD = 1,794.95 COP United States Dollars Colombia Pesos 1 USD = 1,794.95 COP 1 COP = 0.000557118 USD
Venezuela bans the Simpsons on TV
Venezuela axes "The Simpsons" as bad for kids CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has forced U.S. cartoon "The Simpsons" of its airwaves, calling the show a potentially bad influence on children, and filled its morning slot with reruns of the beach-and-bikini show "Baywatch." "The Simpsons" satirical take on a dysfunctional American family had been shown, dubbed into Spanish, on the Televen network at an 11 am slot. "Today I believe they started broadcasting something else," said a spokesman ...
Chrysler, Ford and General Motors Support U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Chrysler, Ford and General Motors Support U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Monday April 7, 5:00 pm ET WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Automotive Trade Policy Council (ATPC) and its member companies -- Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Corporation -- support and encourage Congressional approval of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement “The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a solid and beneficial agreement that will expand exports of U.S. products and strengthen ...
( why did they let those people die ?) What happened in Medellin on September 27, 1987 ??? ( Many people died for no excuse )
Anyone know ? ( many lost their lifes after these natural disasters , but many could have been saved afterwards , if the news reporters and sorry a**ss looters would have stopped and saved them. In both places and both times , reporters and looters saw people they could have saved, but let them die , very very sad..) I had to answer the question and (edit the title), because no one got the answer. ...
FARC Gets FARCed
FARC Gets FARCed April 6, 2008: FARC, the leftist terrorist organization in Colombia, has been trying to overthrow the government since the 1960s. It has failed, and is in the process of being destroyed itself. In the last few years, it has lost over half its armed strength, and much popular support as well. This began when, over the last decade, FARC turned into an ally of the Colombian drug gangs that dominate the world cocaine trade. FARC needed the money, as its revolution was faltering. ...
This ghost in Cucuta , Colombia is a little girl
En el parque de Cúcuta Colombia, se dice que aparece una niña fantasma. En este video veremos cómo un noticiero lleva sus cámaras, para junto con las decenas de curiosos, lograr filmar y tomar fotografías de la niña fantasma. ¿Qué piensan? ¿Será un fake? http://www.baluart.net/videos/la-nina-fantasma-de-cucuta-colombia ...
Colombia ends contract after flap with Clinton aide ( "The Colombian government considers this a lack of respect to Colombians)
Colombia ends contract after flap with Clinton aide 1 hour, 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An angry Colombia said on Saturday it ended a contract with a lobbying firm headed by a top campaign aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after he apologized for meeting with Colombian officials to advocate a trade deal that she opposes. Mark Penn, who in addition to working as Clinton's chief campaign strategist is a lobbyist in his capacity as chief executive of ...
Is the US headed in the wrong direction ?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_re_us/poll_dissatisfied_americans
3,000 minute Colombia calling plan 19.95 and Colombia TV channels.
Time Warner new offers. http://www.examiner.com/p-141102~Time_Warner_Cable_Launches_Breakthrough
Colombia Gasoline prices set to rise again.( Medellin has some of Colombia's highest prices)
http://elpilon.com.co/noticias/not00011693.htm
Venezuela getting new currency
Venezuela will introduce a dual currency to alleviate pressure from a devalued bolivar and record-high inflation, a government financial adviser said. The intention is to finish with the parallel market and instead allow the dollar to trade through a global bond on the local stock market, transparently and freely, said an adviser to the Venezuelan finance minister on condition of anonymity. The bolivar was devalued about 100 percent against the dollar in 2007, which in turn prompted a 22 ...
Has anyone ever dealt with this place in Bogota ?
If so is there stuff of good quality ? http://www.tugaleria.com/artesanias/arte_exotico_de_colombia.htm
Medellin Police arrest 500 + prepagos in one day
Police arrested over 500 prepagos last Saturday in Medellin.
McGovern clarifies contact with Colombia rebel group ( Sen. Piedad Córdoba #2 )
McGovern clarifies contact with Colombia rebel group U.S. Rep. James McGovern readily admits he has been in contact with a Colombian rebel group through third parties, but said his efforts have nothing to do with his opposition to a free trade agreement with the South American country. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial on Tuesday, criticized McGovern, linking his contacts with the group FARC - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - with his attempts to defeat the trade agreem ...
Colombia says rebels in Ecuador launch new attack
Colombia says rebels in Ecuador launch new attack 26 Mar 2008 21:57:30 GMT Source: Reuters BOGOTA, March 26 (Reuters) - Marxist rebels hiding in Ecuador launched explosives at Colombian anti-cocaine workers across the border, Colombia's government said on Wednesday, increasing already high tensions between the Andean neighbors. The guerrillas shot makeshift bombs made from cooking gas cylinders at coca eradicators last week as they pulled up the illicit plants on Colombian territory, Fore ...
Cheapest city in Colombia ( Pasto, la ciudad más barata de Colombia )
En 2007, Pasto, la ciudad más barata de Colombia
Según las cuentas del Dane, Pasto, Nariño, es la ciudad más barata de Colombia. Allí, la canasta familiar subió tan solo 2,64 por ciento durante todo el año pasado.
Pasto es la única ciudad del país donde ya se llegó al nivel de aumento de precios que el Banco de la República se planteó como meta a largo plazo en todo el país y e ...
Semana Santa Miracle or Superstition ????
En Valencia de Jesús
Apareció la ‘Milagrosa’ en una botella de agua
Se formó en un trozo de hielo. La virgen se le apareció en una botella de agua a un agente de la policía, en la estación del corregimiento de Valencia de Jesús, durante la celebración del Viernes Santo. Foto Suministrada. La figura de la virgen en un trozo de hielo contenido en la botella de agua de un agente poli ...
Personal tragedy inspires Colombian director's debut
Director Antonio Negret attends the premiere of "Towards Darkness" in 2007. The horrors of Colombia's kidnapping epidemic are the subject of a new film by Negret, who has tragic first-hand experience of the scourge.
(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/File/Peter Kramer
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The horrors of Colombia's kidnapping epidemic are the subject of a new film by director Antonio Negret, who has tragic first-han ...
Maverick Colombian senator risks her life
Maverick Colombian senator risks her life ( source www.miamiherald.com )
BOGOTA -- Sen. Piedad Córdoba emerged from the Senate chamber here on a recent night, clutching her side.
''My stomach hurts,'' she told an aide. ``It's all this stress.''
No wonder. Ten bodyguards now accompany her around Colombia after a series of death threats. People on the street insult her, and she must wait ...
Colombia has a Hippo problem
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Creepy Pets: Huge Beetles Sell for $130 each ( Colombia Money Making Idea )
Creepy Pets: Huge Beetles Sell for $130By Zoe Selsky, Associated Press A Hercules beetle next to a pen, for size comparison. AP Photo/Zoe Zelsky TUNJA, Colombia (AP) -- University student German Viasus was researching ways to speed the natural decomposition of chicken bones when he came across what has become one of Colombia's weirdest exports. Viasus found 56 tiny, pearl-like eggs nestled in a pile of rotting wood as he searched for bugs that could break down the tons of chicken bones ...
Extrajudicial slayings on rise in Colombia
Extrajudicial slayings on rise in Colombia
FATALITY: A Colombian soldier in January wraps the body of a person who the army said was a leftist guerrilla. Body counts have been considered an indicator of military success.
Soldiers, under pressure to show progress in a U.S.-funded war, allegedly are killing civilians and passing them off as rebels.
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times Staff Writ ...
An agent, a green card, and a demand for sex ( No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December.)
An agent, a green card, and a demand for sex By Nina Bernstein Published: March 21, 2008 No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December. After he stapled one of their wedding photos to her application for legal permanent residency, he had just one more question: What was her cellphone number? The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life ...
Culture, Not Cocaine
Culture, Not Cocaine Pablo Is Gone traffics in Colombia’s traditions, not its drug trade. By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER Published: March 20, 2008 Being from Florida, we didn't know much about hockey before we saw The Mighty Ducks; apparently it's not part of the Canadian Creation myth involving the half-goat Puck. Cinema always had that power to educate and change perspectives. However, purging notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar from Colombia's image is a daunting task, even at 24 frames per se ...
Some Dangerous Colombians !!!!!!!!!!!!!
What happens, if one of those bikes takes a spill into the crowd ? ...
No time for an Easter break for displaced in Colombia's Choco
No time for an Easter break for displaced in Colombia's Choco 20 Mar 2008 Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. RIO SUCIO, Colombia, March 20 (UNHCR) – Most towns and cities in north-western Colombia's Choco region come to a standstill at Easter as people head to the countryside for a family get-together or to the coast for a get-away break. But for 14-year-old Jose Ale ...
She couldn’t attend the concert, but the Colombian singer sent her support to Juanes, his friends and the people of her country
She couldn’t attend the concert, but the Colombian singer sent her support to Juanes, his friends and the people of her country 17 de marzo, 2008 SONY/BMG Shakira sent a message to the media and to Juanes and other artists, who performed Sunday on the Colombia-Venezuela border in a concert to promote peace in the region. The following is a translation of the message in English: “As a Colombian I am so relieved to know that the border relations between our countries ...
Chavez govt's popularity eroding
Chavez govt's popularity eroding Mar 20, 2008 5:02 PM Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is struggling to regain his momentum as inflation, crime and nagging shortages of basic goods cut into his government's popularity before important state elections later this year. The leftist leader lost a referendum last December on speeding up his socialist reforms - his first electoral defeat since taking office in 1999 - reflecting growing discontent with daily problems of violent crime and long l ...
Medellin is Dangerous on Saturday nights !!
Here is the hospital reports for March 15, 2008. En el Hospital Pablo Tabon Uribe se realizaron 114 consultas por traumatología: 37 ocasionadas por burundanga ; 46 con arma blanca (de los cuales uno falleció); cinco por golpes, 5 intoxicados , dos por accidente de tránsito y un adulto quemado con pólvora: 15 de Marzo 2008 En el Hospital Pediátrico fue atendido un menor de 16 años con una intoxicación etílica. Cabe destacar que, según Agustín Guerrero, toxicólogo de hospital, tod ...
Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam
Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam Mon Mar 17, 12:21 PM ET AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands "Our dollar is worth maybe zero over here," said Mary Kelly, an American tourist from Indianapolis, Indiana, in front of the Anne Frank house. "It's hard to find a place to exchange. We h ...
The duck needs one more for 10,000 ( goin_south )
The duck needs one more commnet for # 10,000
The king of coffee in exile Pet jaguars, prison escapes and a tragic kidnapping:
The king of coffee in exile Pet jaguars, prison escapes and a tragic kidnapping: How a world coffee baron came to Charlotte Jeff Elder oday you're having coffee with Mariano Ospina. Oh no, no, no. You will not be dashing into Starbucks for a cardboard cup. You will not slurp through a little hole in a plastic lid. That's the American version of coffee. The scion of Colombia's most famous coffee family does not dash. He does not slurp. Ospina, 54, wears a mane of salt-and-pepper ha ...
Chavez dares US to put Venezuela on list of terrorism supporters
Chavez dares US to put Venezuela on list of terrorism supporters By JORGE RUEDA Associated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the terrorist list'' is Washington's response to his government's successes in the region. U.S. lawmakers includi ...
Uribe's letter to a U.K. Rocker
Online Videos by Veoh.com ...
Apartment Rodadero for rent
ARRIENDO APARTAMENTO EN RODADERO EN TODA TEMPORADA. CELULAR: 300-8032001 This post is for a friend, please call cell phone above no PMS.
Medellin growing to fast
Medellin 1858
Church reels at armless hero's fall from grace( from a Colombian hero to a Colombian Smuggler)
Church reels at armless hero's fall from grace Accused drug smuggler Jose Prado-Carmona wears artificial arms bought by charity drive. Jose Prado-Carmona, a charity worker who inspired west-end congregation, asks for forgiveness after airport search finds heroin Mar 13, 2008 04:30 AM Peter Edwards staff reporter Jose Prado-Carmona quickly blinks his reddened eyes and speaks softly about the anger and sadness that has consumed followers at the west-end San Lorenzo Anglican ch ...
Free MP3 music files ( Vallenato - Salsa- Colombian Rock )
I have about 3000 plus MP3 music files that are formated and ready to download on ipods and other music players. If anybody wants to download any Vallenato or other Colombian songs to ther Ipod or Sony player or Zune these files are easy ready and easy to load. Send me a PM And I will send you some.(you can burn CD's from this songs for personel use only ! ) ...
Cali's Street kids
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Colombian Peso Strengthens For 2nd Day On US Fed Announcement
Colombian Peso Strengthens For 2nd Day On US Fed Announcement Wed, Mar 12 2008, 23:35 GMT http://www.djnewswires.com/eu Colombian Peso Strengthens For 2nd Day On US Fed Announcement BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--The Colombian peso strengthened on Wednesday for a second day as a result of the announcement made by the U.S. Federal Reserve to boost liquidity. The peso strengthened to 1,847.1 Colombian pesos to the dollar from COP1,864 on Tuesday. "People think the Fed's announcement will ...
Colombia President Allies Submit Petitions For 3rd Term Referendum
Colombia President Allies Submit Petitions For 3rd Term Referendum BOGOTA -(Dow Jones)- A Colombian political party allied with President Alvaro Uribe, 55, has submitted to the election authority a petition with about 260,000 signatures supporting a referendum to change the constitution and allow the president to run for a third consecutive term in 2010. Luis Guillermo Giraldo, the secretary of the Party for National Unity, started gathering the signatures in November as part of a privat ...
Four airlines selected for new Colombia service, AA loses route
Four airlines selected for new Colombia service, AA loses route In case you missed this story from last week, the Department of Transportation has granted four airlines the rights to new routes between the USA and Colombia. The airlines getting the new flight rights: Continental (from Houston Intercontinental), Delta (New York JFK), JetBlue (Orlando) and Spirit (Fort Lauderdale). All four routes will be to the Colombian capital of Bogota. The Miami Herald (free registration) says Spirit and J ...
SMUGGLERS SAID DECIMATING COLOMBIA'S WILDLIFE( Most People Dont Know This is Big Business Here Much Like Cocaine)
Smugglers said decimating Colombia's wildlife -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail this story to a friend | Printer friendly version COLOMBIA: REUTERS NEWS FILES SMUGGLERS SAID DECIMATING COLOMBIA'S WILDLIFE BOGOTA - Business is booming - and millions of exotic animals are dying every year because of it. That was the message authorities conveyed this week, in a report on the black market trade in Colombia's wildlife. The report, ...
Does Anyone Know Where To Buy This ?
I would like to buy some of this type of welded wire, as I use it build my bird
cages and Aviaries. I always check all over Barranquilla and Cartagena and Bucaramanga and never have luck. If anyone knows of a source anywhere in Colombia please let me know.
( I can get it delivered by bus or truck to the town I live in no problem)
I need 1/2 " x 1 " and 1" x 1 " squares the widths can be 24 " ...
Should Uribe forgive Chavez ( Forgive and go on Or Seek his Arrest )
If the documents proove to be true, and Chavez aided the Farc.
In knowing how much blood shed and heart ache, they the Frac have caused
in their crimes against Colombian citizens.
Is it wise for Uribe to forgive Chavez and keep good relations with Venezuela, or should Uribe seek the arrest of Chavez.
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Bush looks into terror list for Venezuela
Bush looks into terror list for Venezuela Posted on Mon, Mar. 10, 2008 WASHINGTON -- A senior government official has confirmed that the Bush administration has asked its lawyers to look into what gets a country on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The inquiry follows allegations that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's links with Colombia's FARC guerrillas have been much deeper than previously believed. The investigation is the first step in a process that could see Venezue ...
Colombian guerrillas terrorize Venezuelans despite denials they exist
Colombian guerrillas terrorize Venezuelans despite denials they exist RUBIO , Venezuela — When Porfilio Davila hears his government deny that Colombian guerrillas are mobilizing in his part of western Venezuelan, he thinks about his father, whom he believed was kidnapped by such guerrillas nearly four years ago. Dozens of people in this hilly, forested border region also have gone missing, and many here believe Colombian guerrillas are to blame. Despite the government's pledge to ...
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