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LaUltimaCocaCola has left 66 comments
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on "between young cachacos walking around with painted faces to see a bunch of middle aged girngo playing rock music (kiss) from 30 years ago and these cachacas and their old gringos. it makes me wonder how low will our cacacho brothers and sisters go?" Elmodefoque, vos porque hablas tanta mierda, lo que vivis es resentido porque las "cachacas" no te paran bolas.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Correct.... many of america's string instruments such as the colombian tiple (our national instrument) are descendants of spanish strings, namely the guitar and the vihuela. The guacharaca was a native intrument of the tayronas. The tambora was introduced by african slaves. The vallenato accordion was introduced by Germans. The guiro was a taino instrument, adopted from Dominican Republic (where it's called the guira) and Puerto Rico. It was a fusion of african, european and indigenous elements that created the music of the americas - which possesses all three of these in different ratios depending on such variants as genre, region, artist, etc etc.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Venezuela vs. Colombia Very embarrassing defeat. We need to revamp our national team.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombia can be SO SHALLOW sometimes! Not just Colombia, the world itself is shallow. No need to go any farther than PBH to find that out.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on You want to talk music - you are on! Colombia gave the world Cumbia. Sure, Cumbia is virtually unknown outside of the "latin" sphere, but it's huge in Chile, Peru, Argentina (Cumbia Villera), Mexico (techno Cumbia), Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and to a lesser degree Venezuela and Paraguay. Many of these countries have even taken Cumbia and adopted it as their own music and added their own twist to it (although non-colombia cumbia lacks rythm to be honest). Cumbia is a BIG seller in Mexico, and not just Mexican cumbia - bands like sonora dinamita would consistently sell out in Mexico, Peru and much of Central America. Afro-Colombians have contributed much in terms of colombian music... but isn't that the case with every country that has a signifincant population of african descent? It's not just a colombian phenomenon. At the risk of being labelled a racist, every race has their forte and for africans have been definitely blessed with rythm. Do you think if Jamaicans would have reggae if they were lily white brits? Brazilian Samba and Bossa Nova has mostly african roots. Same thing with Trini calipso, Honduran Punta, Domininican Merengue, Puerto Rican bomba y plena, Cuban son montuno, even R&B, Jazz, Gospel and Rock (yes rock) in the US have african american roots... and the list goes on and on. It's not about how big the country is, it's mostly about the percentage of inhabitants that have african blood. Colombians also had a small degree of influence on contemporary salsa (second after puerto and newyoricans), I can totally get into that if you want to. Brazil has not impacted international culture to the degree it should have considering (CONSIDERING!!!) that it has 8 times the population and 10 times the land mass of Colombia. Yes Samba is known world wide (But how many people really dance it), we all drink caipirinhas. Mexico has had a far greater influence on US culture but that's not surprising considering that it shares thousands of miles of border with its northern neighbor, not to mention that many of what are currently US states used to be part of Mexico, heavily populated by Mexicans and people of mexican descent. Stash Mexico away where Argentina is and it wouldn't even have 1/5 of the influence it has on North American culture. Mexican music sells big in the US.... quebradita, "cumbia (tss tss)", Narcocorridos.. but this music is purchases mainly by mexican americans. I mean, come on, Mariachis are not really a part of MAINSTREAM american culture are they? How many anglos can even name a mariachi song that isn't "la cucaracha"? All in all, I think the countries that have contributed the most to the latin repertoire are Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico (not really a country), "Newyoricans" and Colombia. As far as everybody having a poster of Bob Marley on their wall, yes... well, I am sure many teens have posters of shakira on their walls too. Is Shakira an innovator? Hell no, but she is a household name. Juanes, hey, he is about on the same league as any mexican rocker, so don't understand what the beef is.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Marrying a 17yr old Minor como dejan postear estas cochinadas.... en serio.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... I don't know what it means to be morally upright. I don't believe in moral pedestals. And I have tried drugs in the past, yet I am a kind-hearted, positive minded person. I have not led a sheltered life and I have made my mistakes. He who never erred, never lived. I know people who never tried drugs who are scum. Point being, I don't advocate drug use but I also do not believe drug use alone defines decency.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Ganadores Premios India Catalina 2009 Simon, make sure the copy they are selling at the bakery is not a pirate copy. I have been to many colombian bakeries where they sell pirated copies of colombian movies and novelas.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on How about a clinic that will educate Colombian youth about birth control and the different options available?
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians Safer Today-Another FARC Ratbag Dead in the Jungle This is the same operation that I posted about a couple of days ago. They started fire again on Sunday night and did away with more guerrilla members. Apparently this guy "Gaitan" was actually the boss of the guy captured on Friday.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Calle Colombia in New York The way things are going in NYC, soon they are going to have to take down the Calle Colombia sign and put up "Calle Oaxaca". Most colombians have taken off to Long Island, Jersey or other parts of Queens.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Marrying a 17yr old Minor Definitivamente, nunca habia visto tantos desajustados sociales juntos, da grima. Con razon todos estan solos ingrimos o buscando mujeres de procedencia humilde, para que los aguanten, y eso porque estan necesitadas. En cuanto ellas ven mejores horizontes se rajan, porque que mamera estar con hombres asi.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Simon is actually a tall handsome guy, I can attest to that.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Good point Simon, I meant to say "anglo caucasians", don't get caught up in semantics.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... I don't mean to offend, I am just curious about both your stances.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombian Spanish First off, it would be hard to peg what Colombian Spanish is, since it varies widely from region to region. Somebody from barranquilla sounds more liek a cuban than they do like a bogotano. Second of all, what is pure spanish=castillian? What is spoken in castille? Ask a spaniard where the best spanish in spain is spoken and they can't even agree on that. Generally speaking the Spanish of Bogota and Cundinamarca is very clear, more neutral and not as peppered with regionalisms as that of the paisas. Paisa speech is colored by a lot regionalisms, but the accent resembles galician and the s's are stronger and closer to peninsular diction than anywhere else in Latin America. I say peninsular because people from the canary islands pronounce a very soft S. Calenos also speak a very tolerable more paused spanish, I just wish we could get them to say "pan" instead of "pam". Generally speaking inland (mostly highland) colombian spanish is much more clear than what is spoken in the caribbean, or argentine and urugayan spanish (heavily ifluenced by italian diction and vocabulary) or Mexican spanish (anglicized)
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... I guess we should ask Simon is he thinks he is racially biased against caucasians. And if so why? And Miamimike, do you think you are biased against certain hispanic groups (i.e Miami cubans) and if yes, why?
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... I too felts Simon's wrath on another post about why colombia is poor. If you sift through the flag waving he makes some valid points and I think his heart is in the right place. I just don't think agree with being overly patriotic or adopting moral absolutes such as "decent people don't do drugs", because they automatically make us adopt a judgemental lclose minded stance and then what should be a discussion ends up being a mano a mano and nothing more.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... As for Colombia being statistically as safe than the US, it depends if you are doing a per city comparison and what kind of crimes you are comparing. If you compare Bogota with a murder rate of 20/100,000 to Detroit at 46/100,000, Baltimore with 45/100,000, St Louis at 40/100,000, Newark at 37/100,000, Washington DC at 31/100,000 or Oakland at 30/100,000, Philadelphia at 27/100,000, Atlanta at 26/100,000 then yes, statistically and according to the data presented above (2007 figures) Bogota should be safer in terms of your likelihood to be murdered.. No? Now if you compare the average murder rate for both countries for the same year (Colombia at 37/100,000 it most definitely higher than that of the US at 5.7/100,000. So the country-wide likelihood yields totally different numbers. Apples and oranges, it is all about what areas you will be frequenting. Now, if we talk petty crime and muggings, the rates above don't apply, Colombia as a whole definitely has a higer incidence of petty crime.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Well, it most definitely is a Simon style headline (hyperbole), but he is not making the story up.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Miamimike, we are perfectly aware that latinos attack latinos more often than not and I detest gang related violence and domestic abuse. The fact of the matter, however, is that there ARE racially motivated crimes in the US. They might be sporadic, but they do occur and I can attest to the fact that I was a victim of racially motivated violence in the past. My question is why are you trying to gloss over that fact and trivialize it? We all know that the US is statistically safer than Colombia and I don't think anybody is trying to deny that. This is not a fabricated news, it is real, as you can see this even occured within 2 blocks of RJ's house. You are basically doing the same thing that you accuse Simon of doing except with the US. I think this is why you peeve each other off so much hahaha.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... www.elempleo.com -> colombian version of monster.com
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Shooting in Florida Oh my.... the guy's photo! he looks like a disgruntled KKK member.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Yeah, but it sounds like it's not only Colombians that have to watch our backs. I have been a victim of racially motivated violence. I know it happens, sadly I lived through it. I do still think your chances of being shot for being Hispanic are astronomical.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Then shouldn't your title should read "Latin American immigrants beware".
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians in US beware.... Was the shooting of the chilean students racially motivated? Was it a hate crime?
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down I beg to differ. I think separateness is an illusion and all forms of life are a manifestation of an infinite organizing power. QUOTE: "In his book "The Intelligent Universe" (1983) he wrote: "Life as we know it is, among other things, dependent on at least 2000 different enzymes. How could the blind forces of the primal sea manage to put together the correct chemical elements to build enzymes?" According to his calculations, the likelihood of this happening is only one in 10 to the 40,000th power (1 followed by 40 000 zeros). That is about the same chance as throwing 50,000 sixes in a row with a die. Or as Hoyle describes it: "The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein... I am at a loss to understand biologists' widespread compulsion to deny what seems to me to be obvious." ("Hoyle on Evolution," Nature, Vol. 294, 12 November 1981, p. 105.)" In other words and given the incredible odds against, yet the universe seems to have favored life. I don't believe human life is worthless... at least not to me. Thank you!
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Im watching 20/20 The other Americans HATED Ingrid Betancourt! You are right Desideria. The rejection many Colombians feel toward Ingrid goes beyond the fact that she put the country under international scrutiny due to her poorly thought out choices. It also goes deeper than a mild case of misogyny (more like machismo). Many colombians hate self righteous international bodies/governments that attempt to speak for us when they have not walked in our shoes. I think a lot of Colombians regard her as yet another oligarch with a foreign citizenship, and resent the fact that she THINKS and tries to come across as though she actually stands for the average Colombian fulano.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down "Yup, but the same thing could be accomplished by the hostage dying, right?" Not quite. a) By rescuing the hostage you save a life, and keep a family from grieving due to senseless violence; Violence and the suffering caused by it are deeply entrenched in the Colombian psyche. Resentment begets more violence. The children of a killed hostage might grow up harboring resentment that might lead them to violent acts in the future. It's cycle and it has to be broken at some point. b) Saving a hostage reflects much more positively on the colombian government and our armed forces than letting them die. It creates more confidence in our institutions and also looks better to the international community. Read: Makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down If you look at it from a strategic point of view, when you rescue a hostage you are also taking away one of their bargaining chips and thus further weakening their organization. Here is the same news from other media outlets aside from Eltiempo: http://www.semana.com/noticias-conflicto-armado/ejercito-capturo-negro-antonio-odiado-secuestrador-farc/121233.aspx http://www.elespectador.com/video-cae-el-negro-antonio
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down I can't help but feel pity for Mono Jojoy. The universe is certainly taking care of his karmic debts.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down It was alias "El Negro Antonio". him and his front were responsible for the bulk of the kidnappings which took place in western Cundinamarca department and Bogota between 1998 and 2003. His name is linked to 100 kidnappings. According to Eltiempo.com, the army attacked them while they were trying to pick up a parcel of medicine for Mono Jojoy! (At least that is what I understood) "Este subversivo, quien fuera el azote del secuestro en el occidente de Cundinamarca, entre 1998 y 2003, estaba en la zona negociando una remesa y un lote de medicinas para el 'Mono Jojoy', según lo conoció este diario" Maybe it 's good that he was captured alive. Sounds like he can lead the army to Mono Jojoy. 6 of his men were captured and 10 killed. Great news, a hostage was rescued. http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/capturan-al-negro-antonio-responsable-de-mas-de-100-secuestros-de-las-farc-en-cundinamarca_4847048-1
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Another Guerrillero Down Correction: The commander wasn't killed, he was captured.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on US hostages' chronicle critical of Betancourt I really do not think it is misogynism, at least not in most cases. I believe many colombians see her as a person who makes poor choices and thus a weak presidential candidate.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Do you know what city has the second most kidnappings in the world next to Mexico City? We are well on our way. Colombia will be the better for having gone through all this turmoil and finding its way out of it.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Camilo Villegas - Third Round at PGA Tour Esta bien que se cuide pero que no pregone a los cuatro vientos semejantes bobadas.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on I know Yolanda was a beauty queen, but I think I'm reading that so was Ingrid?? When was this?? vCual reinado gano? ¿El reinado del cuchuco?
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Camilo Villegas - Third Round at PGA Tour Bueno igual yo quiero que ese mechudo divino gane. ¿Como va hasta ahora? No he podido ver nada en los periodicos aun.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Camilo Villegas - Third Round at PGA Tour ¿En serio? Tenaz. Esta bien que el se preocupe por su seguridad mientras este en Colombia, pero no es el tipo de cosa que se dice en una entrevista.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Colombians, Spain and Deportations ... deported them and taken back from the spanish crown all the gold and riches they stole.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Camilo Villegas - Third Round at PGA Tour Puede ser un chisme que le levantaron. A veces los colombianos somos muy envidiosos y nos gusta rajar de los que son exitosos.
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LaUltimaCocaCola comments on Do you know what city has the second most kidnappings in the world next to Mexico City? I have a friend who was run over by a car outside a DF nightclub because she refused to dance with some drunk guy. Mind you this was back in the 90's. Of course she lived to talk about it. i also had a very close friend whose father was a police chief in DF and I heard a few horror stories. You guys make me laugh. If I speak of the dangers of Mexico, I am arrogant or I have an agenda or I am suffering from the parrot syndrome. If I speak of the dangers of Colombia, I will probably get a pat on the back. If I speak of the dangers of the USA, I will probably be flamed. You guys want colombians to be open to frank discussion, which I am, but you don't seem to be so yourselves. I am not saying Mexico is not a place people should visit, i am just saying that it is also a place where people must exercice precaution, yet it doesn't really come across as such. Please let me know which countries's dangers it's okay to talk about on this forum.
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