Sure, we have a country of philosophers, no doubt on it.
Normally the most famous are our politicians which use to make great and beautiful speeches in our plazas giving to our people the suppose-to be keys of our social development and solutions.
More honorable is, undoubtedly, the philosophy you can feel in the works of our writers, painters, movies and even soft operas… Who can say that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is not one of our most important philosophers?
Colombia, Gardel and Tango
It is near the Anniversary of Gardel who dieds in Medellin on June 24, 1935. Uruguay, Argentina and France dispute his place of birth, but Colombia is alone in his last landing that was in Olaya Herrera Airport in a tragic accident.
Tango is not a foreigner in Colombia. That sensual dance that was conceived in the Buenos Aires’ suburbs (arrabales), found itself at home in places like the old Barrio Guayaquil in Medellín, a place that w ...
Well, Jordan is a great country with so much archeological sites to see. Petra, one of the most ancient cities of the world that preservers things as they were thousand of years before. Monte Nebo, where Moses died just looking the Promised Land he would not touch. Amman, a beautiful Arab city. Temples, Roman roads, Byzantine columns… Maybe it can be surprised, but Jordan is one of the most visited countries in the Middle East besides Egypt and Israel.
It is so easy to pay a tou ...
Mr. R. Oltam, the regional director of the Federation for Immigration Reform in USA has proposed an interesting solution to prevent illegal immigration in the “Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration Summit.” The clever idea of Mr. Oltam is militarized the Mexican boarder. Following the events in Spain after the “Asesinato in Villaverde” where a boy was killed by a Latin American gangster in Madrid, the retaliation of some Spaniards young men beating a Colombian journalist and the opi ...
Hello friends...
I want to know which countries of Latin American ask visas to Colombians.
I would like to know advances if I want to go from Colombia to Chile by land or from Colombia to El Salvador. In this last one how can you cross from Colombia to Panama. Thank you for information.
El Viajero Paisa
Knowing now Latin America ...
“Medellín, memoria y ciudad”. Jorge Ivan Garcia is a young artist of drama and artist education professional that felt in love with his own city. This is nothing out of common, of course, if we consider that he is interested especially in those parts of Medellin traditionally featured is “zonas negras” (black zones), but which belong to the early historical foundation of the city. Areas like “Barrio Triste” (Sad Quarter), “Guayaquil”, “Barrio Prado”, “Lovaina”, Bolivar a ...
Today we can call the international community as a great village. In other words, it is the phenomenon of globalization or free market. Of course, every nation, people or country in such a universal village has a role to play. The question is who distribute such roles? Clearly the rules are those of the economic power, upper politics and good intentions. Even flags are less meaningful before the power of money.
We Colombians suffer very much in the way our international image is ...
Hello everyone, my name is Carlos, I live in Jerusalem, but I am from Medellín... I have read a discussion on Colombian Spanish. Here is my contribution.
Speaking about “Colombian Spanish” is a long conversation. It referrers to a huge country with many regions and sub regions, each one with different characteristics. Of course, the Spanish that uses to be listen abroad is the one presented by the Mass Media and, of course, from Santafé de Bogotá. But the importance of the ...
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