Neonovo has written 101 posts
No nos consta \ Por: Tola y Maruja
No nos consta \ Por: Tola y Maruja — Ay, Tola… ¡Qué emoción el rescate de Ingris y los muchachos! — Pero lo mejor, Maruja, es que fue una cosa de pura inteligencia. — ¿Y verdá que el plan venÃa de hacÃa tiempo? — Pues claro… Todo comenzó cuando Juan Manuel Santos llamó al 113 y preguntó por el teléfono del Bloque Oriental de las Far… Entonces se comunicó con el comandante César y le dijo que soltara los secuestrados y pidiera lo que quisiera. — ¿Y qué pidió ...
Colombian Defense Chief Describes Risks, Planning for Hostage Rescue
JIM LEHRER: Now, yesterday's hostage rescue in Colombia. We begin with a report narrated by NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=3072008&seg=3
Chávez vudú, humor punzante
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/latin_america/newsid_7463000/7463275.stm
Octavio Mesa, poet, rapper, old guard...
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Economic Hit Man
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Gobernabilidad letal
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:46:45 -0500 Subject: GOBERNABILIDAD LETAL-Por Claudia López UNA RECETA BARATA PARA EL PRESIDENTE Y CARA PARA LOS COLOMBIANOS Gobernabilidad letal Claudia López. Columnista de EL TIEMPO. Gobernabilidad del uribismo depende de las cuotas del paramilitarismo Los gobernantes entienden por gobernabilidad tener mayorÃas para sacar adelante sus propuestas. Que el Presidente tiene mayorÃa en la opinión pública no tiene duda. Lo ratifica el 82 por ciento de po ...
Blackwater, está miranado posibilidades de inversión en Latinoamérica.
La firma proveedora de mercenarios en Irak, Blackwater, está miranado posibilidades de inversión en Latinoamérica. Scahill presentó este lunes en España, junto a la editorial 'Paidós' , esta historia no autorizada sobre el imparable ascenso de Blackwater desde los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001 en EE.UU. y sobre su conversión en uno de los poderes fácticos más poderosos e influyentes del complejo militar-industrial estadounidense. En declaraciones a Efe, este periodista de 32 ...
Volcano Erupts in Colombia
Volcano Erupts in Colombia \ AP \ Posted: 2008-04-15 07:21:29 BOGOTA, Colombia (April 15) - Authorities are evacuating thousands of people after a volcano in Colombia erupted in a shower of hot ash. There were no reports of damage or injuries from the eruption at the Nevado del Huila, about 150 miles southwest of Bogota. Caracol Radio reported that between 13,000 and 15,000 people who live near the volcano were being evacuated. The eruption took place at 1:08 a.m. EDT Tuesday, accord ...
Body-count politics; harkens back to Vietnam...
World \ Colombian Army Units Accused of Killing Peasants \ by Juan Forero Listen Now [5 min 21 sec] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89612959 Morning Edition, April 14, 2008 · Human rights groups estimate that nearly a thousand Colombian civilians have been executed during the army's six-year offensive against FARC rebels. Members of some rogue army units are accused of executing civilians and dressing them up in rebel uniforms so they can be counted as rebels kille ...
Cultura Mafiosa in Colombia By ALFREDO MOLANO BRAVO
'Sell It to Me or I'll Buy It From Your Widow!' Cultura Mafiosa in Colombia By ALFREDO MOLANO BRAVO The word's origins are polemical: it comes from the Arabic mahya--bullying, arrogance; and maffia, in Tuscan dialect, a synonym for ostentation. The etymology fits like a ring on a finger. The mafia as we know it today was born in Sicily to defend feudal señores with shotguns and nothing but gunshots by contracting hit men and buying or killing judges. Let's continue, since we're getting wa ...
Ojala nos invadan (de mi peor amigo)
Y ahora qué más da; si nos hemos quedado solos, que nos invadan serÃa lo mejor. SerÃa una bendición para nuestra tierra que rodeen nuestras fronteras y que nos invadan nuestros hermanos latinoamericanos. Que nos invadan los ecuatorianos, tal vez asà volvamos a tener de tierno maÃz el corazón que perdimos. ¡Que nos invadan los cubanos! Para que nuestros niños se eduquen gratuitamente y no mueran en las puertas de los hospitales privados. ...
http://www.viva.org.co/antsemanarios.htm
http://www.viva.org.co/antsemanarios.htm fyi Neonovo
Colombia’s Cornered President Raises the Stakes
Posted By Forrest Hylton On 5th March 2008 at 12:14 In United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador | No Comments Interesting views on the current situation, with good historic background and analysis of what lead to what has been unfolding as of the recent incidents in the colombo-ecuadorian frontier, and what may come thereof going forward... http://news.nacla.org/2008/03/05/colombia%e2%80%99s-cornered-president-raises-the-stakes/print/ ...
Could Uncle Sam pls just bankroll the FARC a la Iraq?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080225_the_calm_before_the_conflagration/ Hey, if it work there, why not in Colombia so much closer to home? The Calm Before the Conflagration \ Posted on Feb 25, 2008 \ By Chris Hedges The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq—the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups from their midst. Iraq no lon ...
LLAMAMIENTO de ASFAMIPAZ y otros interesados...
Desde la solidaridad y humanidad compartida, damos a conocer a ustedes el LLAMAMIENTO elaborado conjuntamente por los familiares pertenecientes a la Asociación Colombiana de Familiares de Miembros de la Fuerza Pública, Retenidos y Liberados por Grupos Guerrilleros, ASFAMIPAZ, la Señora Yolanda Pulecio, madre de Ingrid Betancourt y familiares de vÃctimas de CrÃmenes de Estado, de desaparecidos, asesinados, desplazados forzadamente, por las estrategias militares regulares e irregulares del Es ...
Colombian union members are killed at a rate of almost one per week.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/14/headlines#6 U.S. Labor Delegation Lobbies Colombia on Union Killings A delegation of American labor leaders are in Colombia this week to call for a crackdown on rightwing militias behind the murders of hundreds of Colombian union members. The visit comes amidst the ongoing U.S. congressional standoff over a pending Colombian trade deal. United Steel Workers attorney Dan Kovalik said the agreement shouldn’t be approved without addressing Colombian hum ...
What took them so long? Asesor presidencial descalifica marcha contra paramilitares
http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Febrero112008/obduliog.html "Yo personalmente no participaré...difÃcilmente la sociedad colombiana participará en tal tipo de convocatoria cuando precisamente estamos marchando contra los que convocan", ...and why am I not surprised that Mr. asesor should presume to speak for "la sociedad colombiana"? Oblivious to the fact that while it is true the FARC victimizes fellow-colombians by kidnapping and detainng them under conditions less that human ...
http://www.cmi.com.co/
Streaming or not, I'm not sure but you will hear news from Colombia, including all about Piedad... And for a good video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8EA5maWrc4&NR=1 Nenovo
Lo que hize en mi primer viaje \ What I did on my 1st trip.
From my last trip to Bogotá under sunny skies with my 2-year old.
Comer helado...
Visitar torcazas en la plaza Bolivar...
Comer obledas...
Tirarse por el rodadero... ...
Opiniones de un periodista venezolano
Por Teódulo López Meléndez Lunes, 7 enero 2008 Diciembre ha pasado a tener dos caracterÃsticas: el mes en que Chávez hace de las suyas y el mes en que la oposición desaparece. Ya vamos por tres semanas en que los opositores no abren la boca y en que el presidente la ha abierto en demasÃa. Hemos asistido a todo tipo de locuras, desde el espectáculo del flamante canciller pidiendo una prueba de ADN como si se tratase de un niño venezolano o de un hijo de madre venezolana hasta e ...
From my Christmas-trip, IN MEMORIUM of the fallen (sorry about earlier confusion)
During my December trip I went on a family outting to visit the enterred.
At the site there is this Arlington-style military cemetery, which I didn't even know existed, since no one had mentioned it during the outting,
I was impressed enough to share these fotos.
Here I go again; flying into Bogota xmas day. Don't touch my bags, mr custom man!
...and if by some coincidence, I get e-mails with theses links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEuYunbf8Ww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAtapYXXw9U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JE0ovgpqE&NR=1 Feliz Navidad!!\ Neonovo ...
Colombia’s City On A Hill
http://www.newsweek.com/id/69552 MedellÃn goes from murder capital to model city. \ By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan | NEWSWEEK Nov 19, 2007 Issue Sergio Fajardo, a shaggy-haired mathematician with a University of Wisconsin Ph.D., was elected mayor of Medellin and seems to have worked a near-miracle. I'm impressed, remains me of Mocus style in Bogota. Neonovo ...
On Nov 20 Diane Rehm interviewed this so called Colombian "Journalist"
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/11/20.php#17309 If you have the patience to listen, w/out grinding your teeth, scroll to the 11:00 am interview. This girlie remainds me of the colombian-version of the California "Valley-Girl". So Silvana Paternostro wrote this gem-of-a-book "My Colombian War" described on the site as: "A journalist born in Colombia returns to the war-torn country to try and understand and explain her nation's violent past and present." A senior fellow at the World Poli ...
http://www.elvallenato.com/top15/
Only if you like vallenato: http://www.elvallenato.com/top15/ Neonovo
Avianca won't quote 2-way tickets, and is tacking a $120 fuel surcharge...
...so now you price ea way separately, and the best quote I'm getting for Dec25-31 6-day trip is $755. Bummer dude.... Neonovo
RESEÑA CANDIDATOS ELECCIONES 2007 ¿Será todo cierto?
RESEÑA CANDIDATOS ELECCIONES 2007 ¿Será todo cierto? NÚMERO UNO COMO CONTRIBUCIÓN AL VOTO CONSCIENTE DE LOS CIUDADANOS VALLUNOS DAMOS A CONOCER APARTES DE LA HOJA DE VIDA DE ALGUNOS CANDIDATOS AL CONCEJO DE SANTIAGO DE CALI. JUZGUEN LOS LECTORES Y SAQUEN SUS PROPIAS CONCLUSIONES CARLOS ANDRES URRESTY, HIJO DE CARLOS URRESTY ACTUAL CONCEJAL DE CALI Y ASPIRANTE A LA ALCALDIA , QUIEN NO NOS HA CONTADO CÓMO CONSIGUIO EL DINERO QUE LE PERMITIÓ COMPRAR CASA EN PANCE, ADMIRABL ...
SIN HERIR SUCEPTIBILIDADES.....
SIN HERIR SUCEPTIBILIDADES..... Se reúnen tres paisas y crean una empresa. Se reúnen tres costeños y se arma una parranda. Se reúnen tres santandereanos y hay dos muertos y un herido. Se reúnen tres pereiranos y arman una escuela de sicarios. Se reúnen tres vallunos y arman una banda de atracadores. Se reúnen tres huilenses y se arma una dormida colectiva. Se reúnen tres boyacos y arman una fábrica de cerveza y se beben las utilidades. Se reúnen tres quindianos y mo ...
http://www.colombiaespasion.com/VBeContent/library/multimedia/videos/contenedor.swf
Vale la pena que divulguemos este video, ya que es la nueva mirada de los Colombianos, ante nosotros mismos y ante el mundo. POR FAVOR HAZ CLIK ABAJO: http://www.colombiaespasion.com/VBeContent/library/multimedia/videos/contenedor.swf ...
¿POBREZA EN COLOMBIA?
¿POBREZA EN COLOMBIA? Esta es una conversación entre dos amigos, uno Colombiano (Pedro) y el otro Estadounidense (John). Pedro:«John, la verdad que si estás viviendo en Palm Beach, es que las cosas te fueron más que bien.... y claro a los pobres que vivimos en Colombia que nos queda, resignarnos no más....»? John: «Pedro, ¡¡ Creo que no tienes muy claras las cosas!!! ¿Cómo puedes llamarte pobre, cuando eres capaz de pagar por un galón de gasolina casi el dob ...
World's most dangerous roads
http://webmail.aol.com/30128/aol/en-us/Suite.aspx Hello for those of you who remember me....it's been a while...my ranting days are over (too old for that) so I'll start with a positive post. I'm so glad Colombia is not listed...:) Neonovo Country Dangerous road Comment Bolivia The Old Yungus Road 50-mile mountain road that connects Coroico to La Paz Brazil Interstate 116 Potholes, poor signals and heavy traffic in southern Brazil China Sichuan-Tibet Highway A rough, high ...
Ambushed in Jamundi; CSMonitor.com
The war on drugs: Ambushed in Jamund
Why the massacre of an elite US-trained Colombian police team prompted Congress to freeze drug-war funding.
By Danna Harman | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
JAMUNDÃ?, COLOMBIA
Arcesio Morales Buitrago is in charge of the keys at Mi Casita. A soft-spoken man diagnosed as schizophrenic, he is the doyen of the patients at the leafy psychiatric ...
La bella, el capo, y el reo.
La bella, el capo, y el reo.
EL COLOMBIANO presenta el testimonio gráfico de la vida social que vivieron la ex presentadora de televisión Virginia Vallejo, el narcotraficante Pablo Escobar Gaviria y el polÃtico Alberto Santofimio Botero. A continuación publicamos las fotos inéditas. La información se encuentra para visualizar en formato PDF. Para acceder a ella, simplemente debe dar clic sobre la imagen de su interés.
Paz
Neonovo ...
Bóvedas 298 y 299
Bóvedas 298 y 299 Por Rafael Rincón (*)
El presidente Uribe Vélez dijo en su bucólico discurso de posesión que lo preocupaba el riesgo de no llegar a la paz y retroceder en seguridad. El Estado comunitario que propugna este gobierno está fundado en la seguridad que él llama democrática y que considera y califica en un juego de palabras como la primera libertad.
El primer gobierno de Uribe se inició con la consi ...
Caleño con quÃmica hasta para Harvard...
Este paisano está hecho de pura materia gris....
Alejandro Perdomo superó todas las expectativas en el GRE Chemestry, con un puntaje de 910, que equivale al 98 percentil. Es decir, que estuvo por encima del 98% de quienes tomaron el test.
http://elpais-cali.terra.com.co/paisonline/calionline/notas/Mayo022006/cali3.html
Caleño con quÃmica hasta para Harv ...
Massive shipment of cocaine
A massive shipment of cocaine worth an estimated $100 million was seized by police in eastern Mexico Tuesday, the nation's Defense Department announced.
It said 5-1/2 tons of the narcotic was aboard a cargo flight from Venezuela. The co-pilot and two men from another plane, who apparently were planning to fly the cocaine to its next destination, were arrested. Venezuela has become a key corridor for narcotics shipments, according to a State Department report last month, especiall ...
Plan Guatemala; Colombia is so lucky to have Gringo-Tutors...
Assassination: a Primer
Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. From “A Study of Assassination,� a training manual written by the CIA and distributed to agents and operatives at the time of the agency's 1954 covert coup in Guatemala, which ousted the country's democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz-Guzman. The manual, which was among some 1,400 pages of files an the operation that the agency released in May, was ...
Orlando full of grace
Orlando full of grace
Byline: Alexandra Starr Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 03/29/2006
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0329/p20s01-lihc.html
(NEW YORK)It's a frigid winter morning, but the fan installed on the wall of
Orlando Tobon's minuscule office in Jackson Heights, Queens, is going full blast. Without the ventilation the one-room travel agency and tax preparation operation would no doubt be unbearably stuffy, given the ...
Largometrajes colombianos
http://www.epigrafe.com/ anuncia, entre otros:
Largometrajes colombianos en cine y video
La Fundacin Patrimonio Flmico Colombiano presenta una versin actualizada del libro Largometrajes Colombianos en cine y video 1915 - 2004, disponible a travs de los sitios web www.patrimoniofilmico.org.co y www.epigrafe.com. De esta forma, al cumplirse los primeros 90 aos del largometraje nacional, inaugurados por El drama del 15 de octubre (Vincenzo Di Domenico, 1915) se destaca la visibilidad ...
Colombia seeks peace in the middle of war
Go here to read this story online:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0113/p07s02-woam.html
Headline: Colombia seeks peace in the middle of war
Byline: Rachel Van Dongen Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 01/13/2006
(BOGOTA, COLOMBIA)Eduardo Pizarro has one foot in the past and another in the future.
The brother of a guerrilla leader slain by right-wing paramilitaries,Mr. Pizarro has been charged with a nearly impos ...
Need a part time job in La Macarena Nat'l Park?
How about this one?
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p07s02-woam.html?s=hns
Peace
Neonovo ...
Llegue en bus por la noche a Bogota.
...me interrogan y me dicen que me van a deportar por mendigar en los semaforos (sic). Discuto un rato con la señorita que me toma declaracion pero ya resigado les digo que bueno, que cuando sale mi avion. Me dicen que colombia es un pais pobre y que no pueden pagarme el pasaje. Pero colombia es un pais rico, su gente es hermosa y si no tiene ...
Young, illegal, and all alone in New York
Young, illegal, and all alone in New York
Colombia's novelists turn from magic realism to urban grit.
By Marjorie Kehe.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0207/p16s01-bogn.html
They are all around us and yet much of the time we don't even really see them: the army of illegal immigrants who wait tables, deliver groceries, and scrub floors. Paradise Travel by Jorge Franco, however, has the power to change that for its readers. After picking up ...
Colombia sells coca-leaf soda
By Sibylla Brodzinsky | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
BOGOT�, COLOMBIA – Forget Coca-Cola, a group of Colombian Indians is telling its community. Drink the real thing: coca.
Paz
Neonovo ...
Has anyone missed 90-day mark for the I-485 AOS filing?
With a wedding and a baby between our arrival on Sept 16 and the end of the 90-day window today, Nov 15, well time flew.
I'm just about done; even took a day off, but didn't make it. It will go out tomorrow Fri or Sat at the latest.
I believe UC stated you will not be held to the 90-day window on another thread, but I couldn't find it. So I hope someone can put the question to rest and I don't loose any sleep ...
Sophia nació noviembre 21 bajo condiciones ideales...
Al fin llegó...¿Qué les parece?
Es un problema polÃtico
Salcedo es el primer alcalde ciego de América Latina.
La ciudad de Cali, Colombia, se vio sacudida el domingo con la aparición de carteles racistas contra el alcalde de la ciudad, Apolinar Salcedo, el primer jefe de gobierno local ciego y negro.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/latin_america/newsid_4399000/4399040.stm
Paz
Neonovo ...
Uribe will probably be able to seek reelection ...
Court clears most hurdles for a second term for Colombian president
In a triumph for the pro-US Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's top court has
ruled that he will probably be able to seek reelection next year. By
Rachel Van Dongen, CSM.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1021/p25s01-woam.html?s=hns
Paz
Neonovo ...
My PMs are missing begining with 09/11, so....
If you sent me a PM after 09/10, pls resend; My personal email, neonovo at gmail.com is listing several PMs dated 09/11 and beyond, but none are listed here at PBH.
Pls feel free to send directly to neonovo at gmail.com
Peace
Neonovo ...
We're state-side, K1-Visa on hand; Social Security app asks: Legal Alien is (is not) allowed to work??
We're state-side, K1-Visa on hand; I'm looking to get her a Social Security #, So I visited http://www.ssa.gov/online/ss-5.pdf but I'm not sure if her K1 came with a Work Permit or not, and I need to check the proper box: "Legal Alien is (is not) allowed to work"
Peace
Neonovo ...
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