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http://esl.meetup.com/456/calendar/9257282/?gj=ej3&a=cn1_cn2 Christmas Lights Walk Export to a calendar Dec 8 Mon 5:30 PM Location Juan Valdez Cr 11A Bogotá "Parque de la 93" Who’s coming? 4 Yes / 0 Maybe 16 spots left — RSVP deadline: December 8, 2008 5:00 PM Who's organizing? Dana and Johana Muriel-Chandler HI We are planning a walk though Bogota's neighborhoods to visit their different handcrafted Christmas lights also known as ALUMBRADOS. if you ...
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE4B277W20081203 Colombian kids flee home rather than fight in war Thu Dec 4, 2008 1:12am IST Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] By Hugh Bronstein VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist rebels, their ranks depleted by record desertions and military defeats, are stepping up recruitment of children in a desperate bid to prolong their war against the state. More and more families say they are being forced to l ...
http://www.freeschapelle.net/ Schapelle Leigh Corby, a 27 year old Australian was traveling to Bali Indonesia to celebrate her sister's birthday. But her dream holiday ended up a waking nightmare when on October 8, 2004, Schapelle was arrested in the Denpassar airport after 4.2 kilograms of marijuana was found in her boogie-board bag The Australian Federal government failed to pass on to Schapelle Corby's lawyers a Customs report into drug smuggling at Australian airports. It said it never ...
Plan Colombia Devastates Afro-Colombian Communities by Garry Leech Several hours up the Tapaje River from the Pacific Ocean, the monotony of the lush green rainforest is broken when we round a bend and the remote village of San José comes into view. Most of the buildings on the riverbank are fragile wooden structures precariously perched on stilts. Afro-Colombian women busily wash clothes in the river while their children splash around in the fast-flowing brown water. The motorboat slows, ...
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/25/content_10407867.htm Helicopter crash kills 3 in Colombia www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-25 08:27:07 Print BOGOTA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Three people abroad a helicopter from a value transport company died on Monday when the aircraft had an accident in the mountainous area of the northwestern province of Santander. Director of Civil Defense in Santander, Captain Gonzalo Ordoneztold reporters that the helicopter was delivering ...
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/781485.html Posted on Friday, 11.21.08 Recommend (0)share email print comment reprint Volcano erupts in southern Colombia By The Associated Press BOGOTA - Authorities ordered the evacuation of several small towns near the volcano Nevado del Huila, southwest of Bogota, after a brief eruption on Thursday night that forced the declaration of a red alert. "At 09:45 pm local time there was an eruptive event at the volcano Nevado ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aBOI5qzWeUaI&refer=latin_america Colombia Land Mines Toll Tops World as FARC Sow Them in Retreat By Helen Murphy Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- From a helicopter over Colombia, Bajo Grande looks like a ghost town. It has roads, a soccer field, a school and 60 rusted-roof dwellings, but no people. The reason: land mines. The jungle village shows that while the government is winning its war against leftist rebels, the booby traps they've left ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455052,00.html Colombian VP: Cocaine Users Destroying the Rain Forests Thursday, November 20, 2008 LONDON — Does white powder damage your green credentials? Colombia's vice president said Tuesday that Britain's middle classes, who recycle and haul their groceries home in reusable cloth bags, should realize that they are destroying the rain forests by taking cocaine. "These people, who have good jobs and drive a hybrid car or cycle to work becau ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455052,00.html Colombian VP: Cocaine Users Destroying the Rain Forests Thursday, November 20, 2008 LONDON — Does white powder damage your green credentials? Colombia's vice president said Tuesday that Britain's middle classes, who recycle and haul their groceries home in reusable cloth bags, should realize that they are destroying the rain forests by taking cocaine. "These people, who have good jobs and drive a hybrid car or cycle to work bec ...
http://www.nzdf.org.nz/the-ultimate-price-MOS-Feb08 Over the course of two weeks in November 2007, Vietnamese courts condemned 35 people to death for drug related offences [1]. It was such a flurry of death sentences that even the media became interested after having ignored the issue for so long. According to Amnesty International, the death penalty has been abolished in law or practice in 133 states. Of the 64 states that continue to use capital punishment, nearly half have legislation ap ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7734541.stm UK drug users 'damaging Colombia' By Ben Ando Crime correspondent, BBC News More people in Colombia are becoming 'mules', carrying drugs in their bodies Drug users in the UK are causing an environmental catastrophe in Colombia, the country's vice-president has told a meeting of police chiefs. Speaking in Belfast, Francisco Santos Calderon said that 200,000 hectares of forest were being destroyed each year to produce the cocaine ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN16478137 By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Colombia fired 10 army officers and three soldiers on Sunday in a widening scandal over the killing of innocent civilians that threatens to further complicate a U.S. trade deal bogged down over human rights. The soldiers and officers are accused of shooting seven young men in the northern province of Cordoba and passing the bodies off as leftist guerrillas killed in combat. "We ...
I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://newintown.meetup.com/395/calendar/8982444/ When: November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Where: Cafe Ciiudad Carrera 7 con19 Bogotá 3112604141 ...
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/13/american-superbugs.html U.S. super bugs surface in Colombia: study Last Updated: Thursday, November 13, 2008 | 2:34 PM ET Comments0Recommend0CBC News Two super bugs first detected in the U.S. have begun to cause serious sickness and death in a handful of Colombian cities, including the capital Bogota, according to research published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, a joint project by researchers at the University o ...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/12/colombia.soldier.killing.ap/ Colombian soldier says comrades killed brotherStory Highlights Five Colombian soldiers face criminal probe in death of comrade's civilian brother Soldiers reportedly would earn leave with "guerrilla kill" Report: Soldier says his brother killed "for nothing more than liberty pass" Pvt. Luis Esteban Montes says he was asked to be in plot, tried to save brother BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The soldiers ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7721608.stm Colombia hails Mexico's drug war Mr Uribe, right, was on three-day visit to Mexico The presidents of Colombia and Mexico have agreed to intensify joint efforts to combat powerful cartels that control the flow of drugs in both countries. Alvaro Uribe praised his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon for his efforts while on a visit to Mexico. The Mexican leader has deployed some 40,000 troops to tackle drug gangs since taking office ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449867,00.html In this photo released by Guatemala Fire Department, the bodies of fifteen people lie on the ground after a bus fire in Zacapa, Guatemala. GUATEMALA CITY — Fifteen charred bodies found in a burned-out bus in eastern Guatemala were shot before being set on fire, prosecutors said Monday. Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez said the killings may have been drug related. He said parts of the vehicle, which originated in Nicaragua, had been vi ...
Here are some photos of PACHO, Colombia click on the "view images" http://www.steveislost.com/blog/photos-pacho-colombia.html have some cousins who live there and we are trying to get transportation into bogota, gracias?? ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSTRE4A48TA20081105 About Thomson ReutersFACTBOX: Obama's policies on Latin America Wed Nov 5, 2008 12:21pm EST Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page | Recommend (0) [-] Text [+] (Reuters) - Here are President-elect Barack Obama's main policies on Latin America as laid out during the election campaign: DIPLOMACY - Obama plans to rebuild ties with Latin America he says were neglected by the Bush administration because of its "myo ...
http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/country-profiles%2523colombia/100019620-1-colombia-selling-buying.html Consumers associations Distributing a product Market shares The most important commercial zones are Santafe, Bogota and its region, Medellin, Cali, Bucaramanga and Cartagene. The traditional distribution, symbolised by local groceries and other small shops called "tiendas", witnessed the arrival of modern distribution networks copied from western models: supermarkets, hypermarkets ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSN3040886120080808 ReutersTown is piece of Africa in Colombia PALENQUE, Colombia (Reuters) - The drumskin sings in the tropical sun as 12-year-old Pedro Joaquin beats out an ancient rhythm. His mother shells peas and nods approval as chickens peck in the dirt around her feet. The sights and sounds could be those of an African village, but they come from Colombia's Palenque de San Basilio. "Welcome to the first free town of the Americas, ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/09/02/colom.2.t_0.php Search U.S. Election Called Key Factor in Colombian Aid : Politics and the Drug War By Brian KnowltonPublished: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2000 WASHINGTON: Latin American specialists, narcotics experts and political analysts agree on many of the factors behind President Bill Clinton's $1.3 billion aid package for Colombia: serious concern over the persistent U.S. drug problem, an effective sales job by President Andres Pastrana and real wor ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/09/02/colom.2.t_0.php Search U.S. Election Called Key Factor in Colombian Aid : Politics and the Drug War By Brian KnowltonPublished: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2000 WASHINGTON: Latin American specialists, narcotics experts and political analysts agree on many of the factors behind President Bill Clinton's $1.3 billion aid package for Colombia: serious concern over the persistent U.S. drug problem, an effective sales job by President Andres Pastrana and real wor ...
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http://www.mlive.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2008/10/bush_finally_sends_funds_to_co.html Thursday October 30, 2008, 7:06 PM After pressing Congress all year to approve a Colombia trade pact, the Bush administration is only now releasing millions in American aid enacted last December to help President Alvaro Uribe’s government curb the violence against union workers. An estimated $19.8 million was set aside for the Colombia Prosecutor General’s office in the fiscal 2008 foreign aid budge ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hJ41L4lk3uka1uQVDYorCRwpq9agD945G1JO0 Colombian charged with smuggling tons of cocaine 1 hour ago CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A reputed major cocaine trafficker who allegedly threatened to kill U.S. law enforcement officials has been brought from Colombia to the United States to face charges. Carlos Patino Restrepo was flown to the United States and arrived in an armored car for his arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Central Islip. Pat ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/31/MN7IVDGI9.DTL Poverty, drugs feed Colombian city's violence Mike Ceaser, Chronicle Foreign Service (08-31) 04:00 PDT Buenaventura, Colombia -- The grinding poverty in this port city deepens as you approach a slum called San Francisco, where naked children play on mud streets next to shacks perched on stilts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most residents are Afro-Colombians who f ...
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445128,00.html Netflix, TiVo Hook Up to Stream Movies Over Internet Thursday, October 30, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed to come together four years ago. Under the partnership announced Thursday, the latest generation of TiVo's digital video recorders wil ...
http://socialistworker.org/2008/10/27/indigenous-uprising-in-colombia Colombia's indigenous uprising David Goodner reports on how indigenous Colombians demanding land, liberty and life are met with violent repression by President Alvaro Uribe's state security forces. Megan Felt provided additional reporting. October 27, 2008 Protesters in Bogota, Colombia, march for an end to paramilitary violence ON OCTOBER 13--516 years to the day that First Nation originarios discovered Christophe ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/28/farc/ (CNN) -- Leftist Colombian rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to meet with prominent Colombians to discuss the possible release of hostages they are holding. Escaped hostage Oscar Tulio Lizcano gets a taste of freedom Sunday. The announcement was posted on a pro-rebel Web site, dated October 16. It says it was written "in the mountains of Colombia" by the secretariat to the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, kn ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/28/content_10264685.htm Ecuador to restrict entrance of Colombian citizens due to recent kidnappings www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-28 10:15:36 Print QUITO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said on Monday that his country will ban the entry of Colombian citizens into Ecuador if Colombian gangs continue their kidnapping of Ecuadorians. "If Colombia continues (being) incapable of controlling its terri ...
Betancourt compares her ordeal to Austrian crimes VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer – Sun Oct 26, 11:47 am ETVIENNA, Austria – Former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt compared her experience to two headline-grabbing Austrian crimes, saying Sunday that she sympathized with a family kept in a cellar and planned to meet a woman held by a kidnapper for more than eight years. Betancourt said she felt love for the victims of Josef F ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/27/content_10260094.htm 9 killed in road accident in central Colombia www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-27 15:18:02 Print BOGOTA, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least nine were killed and another six injured when a passenger coach fell into a sheer valley on Sunday in the Santander Department of central Colombia. The accident took place on a highway in the mountainous area of Santander when a coach with 15 passengers on board suddenly w ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/3263156/Colombia-finds-10-tons-of-cocaine-in-one-of-the-biggest-seizures-in-history.html South America ColombiaColombia finds 10 tons of cocaine in one of the biggest seizures in history Colombian authorities have found more than 10 tons of cocaine worth $200 million (£125 million) in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, ready to be shipped to Mexico. By Jeremy McDermott in Medellín Last Updated: 6:10PM GMT 26 Oct 20 ...
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http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2007/05/high_school_mus_1.html "High School Musical: Concert" wowing South America posted by halboedeker on May 22, 2007 3:17:11 PM Discuss This: Comments (0) | TrackBack (2) | Linking Blogs | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it Wondering how "High School Musical: The Concert" is going in South America? Take a look: That was Drew Seeley (a Lake Brantley High grad) and Vanessa Anne Hudgens performing in Buenos Aires at the tour's star ...
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/22/colombia.protesters/ 2 men killed in Colombia protestsStory Highlights Two men fatally shot during protests in Colombia Protesters claim police shot men, but Colombian authorities deny allegations Demonstrators seek more land for Colombia's 1.3 million Indians, more funding Next Article in World » From Karl Penhaul CNN VILLARICA, Colombia (CNN) -- Two men were shot to death Tuesday in a clash with riot police amid a b ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/21/content_10229941.htm Senior generals of China, Colombia plan to strengthen military ties www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-21 20:29:51 Print BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), met with Freddy Padilla de Leon, commander-in-chief of Colombia's Armed Forces, on Tuesday. Chen hailed the two country's growing bilateral ties since forging diplom ...
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/big-cats-in-drug-mansion/2008/10/20/1224351155329.html MEXICO CITY: Two tigers and two lions were seized during a police raid on a mansion used by alleged drug traffickers. Authorities said the animals were part of a private zoo at the mansion, which was raided at the weekend. More than a dozen alleged drug traffickers were also arrested, and weapons and vehicles were seized at the property in an expensive neighbourhood of Mexico City. An organised-cr ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgIi9hrhbZXtzymXytyDZkb2ykJgD93TVCLG0 Go to Google News©2008 Google - Map data ©2008 LeadDog Consulting, MapLink/Tele Atlas, Europa Technologies - Terms of UseSon of Colombian warlord slain following sentence 10 hours ago BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police say the son of a warlord extradited to the U.S. on drug charges has been murdered. Authorities say unidentified assailants shot and killed 32-year-old Vladimir Vanoy on Sunday at the gate ...
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http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2394497.htm Colombia drug industry eyes off Australia PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY PM - Friday, 17 October , 2008 18:30:00 Reporter: Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: The Australian federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said as you may remember on this program yesterday that his force had seized nearly 200 kilograms of cocaine on its way into the country and that was just since July. The world's biggest supplier of cocaine is Colombia, whose combinati ...
http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2008/10/15/colombia-mexico-investment-face-markets-cx_je_1014autofacescan01.html U.S. EUROPE ASIA HOME PAGE FOR THE WORLD'S BUSINESS LEADERS Free Faces In The News Colombia, Mexico Tout Investor Safe Havens Javier Espinoza and Edward Beckett 10.15.08, 4:00 AM ET LONDON - Worried about the increasing volatility of financial markets? Come and invest in Latin America. That is the message some of the weightier economies in the region, including C ...
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