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USA Democrats Oppose Child Slave and Labor in Colombia
"More talks are expected next week in Washington, but trade officials said that the impasse between the Democrats and the administration on labor rights has clouded their chances.
At issue is the Democratic demand that pending trade deals with Colombia, Panama, Peru and South Korea include a provision guaranteeing certain rights for labor in the trading partner countries, including a ban on child and slave labor and the right to organize.
In addition, the D ...
Tougher Challenges Ahead for Colombia's Uribe
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW BRIEFING
Tougher Challenges Ahead for Colombia's Uribe
Bogotá/Brussels, 20 October 2006: President Uribe’s second term promises to be more difficult than his first, and unless he broadens his emphasis on a military solution to the conflict and confronts corruption, poverty and human rights violations more effectively, blame for the country’s ills will lie squarely with him.
Tougher Challenges Ahead for Col ...
Colombia Opposes Election of Chavez to UN Security Council
Mexico, Colombia and most Central American nations have indicated support for Guatemala.
Uribe not supportive of his neighbor's bid to increase international influence.
P.S. The headline is objective, fair, and balanced. ...
SEÑORA NACIONES DEL MUNDO
Quieres vivir una noche de rumba diferenT...
El sábado 12 de agosto será una noche mágica, ven y disfruta del primer reinado transformista:
SEÑORA NACIONES DEL MUNDO
Doce hermosas transformistas, llegan de todos los rincones del paÃs, a disputarse el cetro y la corona de este maravilloso concurso.
Quien ganara?
Ven y gózate esta otra cara de Santander de Quilichao, que jamás te hubieses imaginado.
...
Foro de los Artistas en Colombia
FORO
CONDICIÓN SOCIAL, LABORAL Y FISCAL
FORO DE LOS ARTISTAS EN COLOMBIA
Amigas y amigos
Continuando con los “CICLOS PEDAGÓGICOS CULTURALESâ€?, en el espacio “Los Martes Musicalesâ€? tenemos previsto para el próximo MIÉRCOLES 2 DE AGOSTO, realizar un foro abierto con la participación del sector artÃstico colombiano en general y con la asesorÃa y orientación de dos expertos en materia de seguridad social, laboral y fiscal. ...
Juana La Reina, La Reina Loca de Amor
"No existe una mujer que no haya sido tocada por el amor", asegura Ana Consuelo Gómez, a manera de invitación.
La coreógrafa y bailarina Ana Consuelo Gómez presenta su montaje cumbre.
"No seré ni la primera ni la última mujer que ame con locura. Que insista una y mil veces ante una puerta cerrada. Y los siglos caerán sobre mÃ, entre ruinas y paredes desplomadas".
Este es tan solo uno de los parlamentos de la obra Juana la reina, la reina loca ...
Got Milk? Maybe Better Not to in Bogota?
Here is the abstract of a study done on aflatoxin contamination of milk in Bogota conducted by G. J. Diaz of the Laboratorio de ToxicologÃa, Departamento de Ciencias para la Salud Animal, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota.
"A study was conducted to establish the occurrence and levels of contamination of aflatoxin M 1 (AFM1) in retail milk from Bogotá, Colombia. A total of 241 samples were analysed during 2004 and 2005. Sa ...
Colombian Scientists Continue to Produce World Class Results
There have been so many articles published that I cannot keep up with them all as Colombia continues to produce top notch researchers and scientists in both pure and applied sciences.
Colombians are among the world's BEST researchers and scientists and the proof appears in their publications in world class journals in many different disciplines.
For example, here is a recent article by Juan Manuel Anaya of the Unidad de BiologÃa Celular e Inmunogenética, Corporac ...
Colombia a Strong Favorite to Win Soccer Games
Colombia under-21 soccer team strong favorite in C. American Games
Colombia's under-21 soccer team is a strong favorite to win the title at the Central American and Caribbean Games, local press said on Tuesday.
Colombia will play Honduras on Wednesday for a place in the final, at 6.00 p.m. local time (2300 GMT) in Cartagena's Pedro de Heredia Stadium. Venezuela face Costa Rica in the other semifinal at 8.00 p.m. in Barranquilla's Metropolitano Stadium.
...
Ingrid not forgotten, creates PR problem for FARC
El Comité de apoyo a Ingrid Betancourt cuenta desde este jueves con una caseta al borde del rÃo Sena, en Francia, en la que espera recoger en un mes 100.000 firmas en favor de la liberación de la ex candidata presidencial colombiana secuestrada desde el 2002 por la guerrilla de las Farc.
La caseta, en la que también se venden productos tÃpicos colombianos en beneficio del Comité, quedó instalada con motivo del lanzamiento de "ParÃs playas", una iniciativa del Ayuntamiento ...
Gobierno gestiona evacuación a colombianos en LÃbano
Barco did not mention anything about charging the poor bastards a fee for evacuating them from Lebanon. Her first impulse seemed to be humanitarian in nature.
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores, Carolina Barco, reveló este martes en RCN Radio que el Gobierno, junto a otros paÃses latinoamericanos y a España, gestiona la evacuación y ayuda urgente a unos 2.000 colombianos que viven en LÃbano, nación bombardeada en los últimos dÃas por Israel.
"Estamos traba ...
Colombia's Neighbors Benefit from Rising Oil Prices
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday accused the United States of being one of the forces that was contributing to the surging world oil prices.
In a speech inaugurating a new subway line in Caracas, Chavez said he hoped the oil prices would not rise further, accusing Washington of fuelling the geopolitical tensions behind the price dilemma.
"It's not in our plans that they (the prices) keep rising, but (U.S.) imperial craziness and other factors disturbing w ...
Come to sunny Colombia
Dateline: CIUDAD PERDIDA, COLOMBIA
MENTION Colombia, and most people think of cocaine, kidnappings and guerrilla violence. These have served to keep all but the most danger-loving tourists away for decades. But under Ã?lvaro Uribe, Colombia's president since 2002, violence has fallen steadily and many parts of the country have become safe. Now the government is trying to replace conventional images of Colombia with different ones: white-sand beaches, colonial cities, jungle-clad m ...
Colombia's Strong New Brew
Given the international success of such artists as Shakira and Juanes, it is by now pretty much established that Colombian music—even at its most regional—has possibilities abroad.
The latest artist to get a heavy international push is singer/songwriter Fonseca, a native of Bogotá, whose mix of vallenato and cumbia fused with pop, jazz and world beats vacillates between sophisticated and eminently mainstream.
His breakthrough was "Te Mando Flores," the first si ...
COLOMBIAN DREAMS
Colombian Dreams
– B Y J A M E S R . S T O R M E S
• Economic growth that will not disappear with the next market change
• A city budget created by consulting the people who live there
• Federal planning with serious input from local community
THESE ARE DREAMS worthy of any society, including our own, and I was watching them become realities in a small city called Pasto in the south of Colombia. Around a table in a simple conference roo ...
Pablo Escobar's Lover Accuses Santofimio in Galán Murder
Virginia Vallejo acusa a Santofimio de ser el "autor intelectual" del asesinato de Galán
La ex presentadora de televisión, Virginia Vallejo, ex amante del fallecido narcotraficante Pablo Escobar, aseguró que el "autor intelectual" del asesinato del ex candidato presidencial Luis Carlos Galán fue el ex ministro Alberto Santofimio Botero.
En una entrevista con el diario "El Nuevo Herald", publicada este domingo, la ex figura de la televisión colombiana dijo que " ...
Colombia: Sede del Mundial 2014?
Gobierno inicia gestiones para ser sede del
Mundial-2014: Santos hablará con la Conmebol
El vicepresidente Francisco Santos Calderón anunció para el próximo viernes un primer contacto con el presidente de la Confederación Suramericana de Fútbol (Conmebol), el paraguayo Nicolás Léoz, para exponerle la intención del Gobierno colombiano de organizar el Mundial del año 2014.
Santos Calderón dijo que el viernes se mantendrá un diálogo sobre este asunt ...
Let the 20th Central American/Carribean Games Begin!
5,000 athletes from 32 countries are playing in Cartagena. The games will end on July 30.
Cartagena will host 12,000 people between the athletes, organizers, and tourists.
Venezuela has won the first medal (in weightlifting).
And the best part: the games are free of charge! ...
8,000 people ordered to evacuate in Nariño
Emergency declared in the zone around the Galeras volcano.
Declaran emergencia en zona del volcán Galeras;
ordenan evacuación de unas 8.000 personas
Las autoridades del departamento de Nariño declararon este miércoles el estado de emergencia en las zonas aledañas al volcán Galeras, que entró en erupción, para evacuar a unas 8.000 personas. La erupción obligó a intensificar a "uno" el nivel de alerta de seguridad, informó el Observatorio Vulcanoló ...
A Dangerous Job in Colombia
With President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia at his side at the White House last month, President Bush promised action, soon, on a bilateral trade agreement. We strongly support free trade, but before an agreement can be completed, Americans need reassurance that Mr. Uribe's government will do more to protect workers' rights, instead of standing aside as union leaders are systematically killed.
In the last 20 years, according to a recent report by the Solidarity Center of the A.F.L.-C. ...
Buena Noticia Recibida de Gonzalo Concha
Complacidos no solo los colombianos sino todos los ambientalistas y conservacionistas del planeta, recibimos la buena noticia en la madrugada de hoy cuando UNESCO, declaró al Santuario de Fauna y Flora de nuestra Isla de Malpelo como: PATRIMONIO DE LA HUMANIDAD...
Asà que ahora la responsabilidad con su conocimiento, difusión y conservación es cada vez mayor..
Mil gracias al Ministerio del Medio Ambiente y a todas las personas e instituciones que hicieron pos ...
Books Related to Colombian Philosophers
Colombian Philosophy
(1985). La FilosofÃa en Colombia : bibliografÃa del siglo XX. Bogota, Universidad Santo Tomás, Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de FilosofÃa.
Blanco, J. E., L. López de Mesa, et al. (1987). Correspondencia filosófica (1917-1966). Barranquilla, Ediciones Uninorte.
Valencia Gutiérrez, A. (2005). Estanislao Zuleta o la voluntad de comprender. Medell�n, Hombre Nuevo Editores.
Nieto Arteta, L. E. and D ...
Attack on Restaurant in Downtown MedellÃn Kills Two
Two dead and thirteen wounded according to El Colombiano in attack on Restaurante Metropolis.
(12:25 p.m. July 11, 2006)
Dos personas fallecidas, empleados de la empresa del grupo antioqueño Gana, y 13 heridos es el saldo que dejó la explosión de un artefacto en el interior de un local en el centro de MedellÃn.
La detonación ocurrió a las 12:35 p.m. en el restaurante Metrópolis, ubicado en el segundo piso de un centro comercial del sector de JunÃn co ...
Colombian Flowers
OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Mexican ranchero music drifts across Michael Mellano's flower fields as his employees load eucalyptus branches onto trucks.
Mellano knows some of his men are illegal immigrants -- he estimates 60 percent of all workers on U.S. farms are illegal and figures the same percentage applies to his 250 employees.
"How can you hide it?" he asks. "Who are you trying to kid?"
Without them, Mellano's cut-flower business, founded by 80 years a ...
Poetry in MedellÃn Responds to Terrorocracy
MEDELLIN, Colombia, Jul. 7, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The shout "I am Iraq!" was heard echoing through the streets and plazas of this northwestern Colombian city during the 16th International Poetry Festival of Medellin -- founded here as a fight against fear.
The U.S.-led "war on terror" was expanded in late 2001 to include the Colombian armed conflict - resulting in a feeling of brotherhood by some participants here with Iraqis.
The Colombian government is the third-large ...
Energy price rises stoke Colombia coal
Besides tumbleweed, little seems to move across the arid landscape of La Guajira, a region in northern Colombia renowned for bandits and smuggling.
But the desert silence is nowadays broken three times a day by a locomotive that snakes through the bush pulling hundreds of wagons brimming with Colombia's fastest-growing export: thermal coal.
Shipments of coal are rising fast, and could soon surpass oil as the South American country's top foreign exchange earner. Mini ...
US Terrorocracy Promotion in Colombia
Most analysts of US post-cold war policy in Colombia argue that the US has switched from targeting Communist guerrillas to a war on drugs and a new war on terror. Contrary to these claims this article shows that the US continues to back Colombian counter-insurgency efforts which essentially amount to a strategy of state terrorism under a democratic façade (terrorocracy). Moreover, this policy continues to be pursued because the US has long employed counter-insurgency warfare to stabilise social ...
News Flash! Montoya goes NASCAR
Welcome to NASCAR by Bob Margolis // July 9, 2006
Upon first hearing Juan Pablo Montoya was coming to NASCAR, my reaction was one of disbelief.
Then my mind wandered back in time to when I was covering open wheel racing in 1999 and watched up close the then-23-year-old brash, arrogant but extremely talented driver from Colombia no one had ever heard of before.
I thought about it again.
Juan Pablo Montoya in a Nextel Cup car. What a br ...
El Campeonato Mundial
EL campeonato mundial
Todos con el deporte vibran
equipos se equilibran
apasionamiento general.
Periodica competencia
paises que clasifican
se preparan, se sacrifican
y trabajan a consciencia
la practica y la ciencia
la tactica en general
entrenamiento especial
habilidad fortalece
cada equipo se merece
el campeonato mundial.
Seleccionan los mejores
son jóvenes y famosos
son ri ...
Hot Colombian Salsa (July 2006 Update)
SALSA BOOKS
El cuaderno de la salsa : 100 biodiscografÃas salseras de la Taberna Latina, Cali, Colombia por Gary DomÃnguez
Ediciones Salsa Latina (2005) ISBN 9588265061
Libro de la Salsa : Crónica de la Música del Caribe Urbano por César Miguel Rondón
Ediciones B (2005), ISBN 9589740537 Second Deluxe Edition. Hardcover.
Available in the LIBRERIA NACIONAL bookstores.
CDs OF ...
ESTRELLA AUTOEXISTENTE AMARILLA
ESTRELLA AUTOEXISTENTE AMARILLA
Recuperar la ternura
un movimiento mundial
es urgente, es vital
quitarnos la armadura.
Cuando el hombre se conmueve
y todo el cuerpo vibra
la energÃa que se libra
torna el peso mas leve
y por un instante breve
toda apariencia dura
y la sombra mas oscura
se disuelven en la nada
liberadora jornada
recuperar la ternura.
Poder repartir caricias
Cine Gratis en Centro Cultural de Cali
PLUMAS LATINOAMERICANAS ADAPTADAS AL CINE
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Cuatro grandes escritores latinoamericanos con una sexualidad diversa dan vida a: cuatro personajes, que luchan contra un mundo que les excluye y señala, llevados al cine en : cuatro pelÃculas basadas en estas historias que nos muestran esa otra realidad, tan cotidiana, tan diversa, pero tan irrespetada.
...
Free Movies in Centro Cultural de Cali
PLUMAS LATINOAMERICANAS ADAPTADAS AL CINE
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Cuatro grandes escritores latinoamericanos con una sexualidad diversa dan vida a: cuatro personajes, que luchan contra un mundo que les excluye y señala, llevados al cine en : cuatro pelÃculas basadas en estas historias que nos muestran esa otra realidad, tan cotidiana, tan diversa, pero tan irrespetada.
...
Chavez Continues to Try to Help Bush
Hugo Chávez by Greg Palast // The Progressive // July 2006
You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez's behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March 28, he made Bush the following astonishing offer: Chávez would drop the price of oil to $50 a barrel, "not too ...
If Karzai is right, wiping out FARC is not the solution
KABUL, Afghanistan - One of America's closest allies says the war on terrorism fails to address its root causes.
Experts agreed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying Friday the major military offensive against the Taliban will not fix Afghanistan's larger crises — a lack of reconstruction and jobs, a booming drug trade, and a weak government.
SOURCE: TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer, June 23, 2006
Lack of jobs, booming drug trade, weak government...h ...
Could peace break out in Colombia? Well, no...
Plátano's comment: This is not going to happen. There will be no peace talks with FARC while Uribe is president.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's biggest rebel group will talk peace with President Alvaro Uribe if he halts U.S.-backed anti-guerrilla operations, a guerrilla leader said, reversing the group's earlier refusal to negotiate.
Raul Reyes, spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said it would meet with the governme ...
VI Recital de PoesÃa Erótica
Invita:
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VI RECITAL DE POES�A ERÓTICA
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· Venga y disfrute con nosotros una noche dedicada a la diversidad y al erotismo.
· Miércoles, 28 de JUNIO/2006 Hora 7:30 PM
· CLUB SIN´S
· CALLE 24 N 6 N 16 - SEGUNDO PISO
· ENSEGUIDA DE KAREN'S PIZZA Av. SEXTA
· 311 383 24 28 / 310 388 43 98 / 310 877 60 58 /312 224 19 79
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VI Recital de Poesia Erotica
Invita:
*******
VI RECITAL DE POES�A ERÓTICA
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· Venga y disfrute con nosotros una noche dedicada a la diversidad y al erotismo.
· Miércoles, 28 de JUNIO/2006 Hora 7:30 PM
· CLUB SIN´S
· CALLE 24 N 6 N 16 - SEGUNDO PISO
· ENSEGUIDA DE KAREN'S PIZZA Av. SEXTA
· 311 383 24 28 / 310 388 43 98 / 310 877 60 58 /312 224 19 79
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More Good News in Colombia
Thanks to a donation of 700 thousand dollars from the Japanese government (some 1,750 million pesos), the new Rehabilitation Center for victims of anti-person mines at the Valle University Hospital was inaugurated yesterday.
This pilot centre will assist mine victims from the rural zones of Southwestern: Nariño, Cauca, Valle, Chocó, Risaralda, QuindÃo, Caldas, Huila, Putumayo and Caquetá. The Valle Governorship contributed 300 million pesos and the Hospital 442 million pesos.< ...
North Valle Drug Cartel Financial Network Exposed
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following press release:
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today added five individuals and twenty companies tied to Colombia's North Valle drug cartel to its list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs). The five individuals act as front persons for North Valle cartel leaders Raul Alberto Grajales Lemos (Raul Grajales) and Carlos Alberto Renteria Mantilla (Beto Renteria). Both ...
Daily Acts of Heroism in Colombia
Over the past 15 years, the trade agreements that the United States has entered into with other nations have been, when it comes to ensuring the rights of workers in those nations, merely outrageous and inadequate. Now the administration is about to send up to Capitol Hill a new accord that takes our trade agreements to a whole new level. The proposed agreement is with the government of Colombia, and it's ridiculous.
Colombia, you see, has a bit of a workers' rights problem. It's ...
Colombia praised by UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner
Cheng-Hopkins, the UNHCR's assistant high commissioner for operations, said the number of people fleeing the conflict in Colombia continues to grow month after month. As with Colombians in need of protection in Ecuador, Cheng-Hopkins said tens of thousands more Colombians of concern to her agency have gone to such countries as Venezuela, Panama and Costa Rica.
Colombia, she said, is a "middle-income country, with strong state institutions." She said Colombia cannot be compared to ...
Colombia leads world in research to prevent death by dehydration
Colombian researchers are leading the world in research on preventing children's deaths worldwide. Colombian scientists are on the cutting edge of the world's research front. Colombian researchers reviewed immunity and correlates of protection for rotavirus vaccines in a recent issue of the journal Vaccine.
According to their review, "Rotaviruses are the most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children worldwide. The tremendous global incidence of rotavirus gastroente ...
Signos chibchombianos
ARIES (20 Marzo ~ 20 Abril):
Usted se cree muy honesto, Ãntegro, independiente y poderoso. Bueno ... eso solo usted se lo cree!!. Usted lo que en realidad adora es mandar y que todo se haga siempre de la hijueputa forma que usted quiere, asà tenga que llegar a las patadas. Pero en el fondo, usted lo que es, es un blanducho de mierda (aunque deteste admitirlo). Usted no consigue influenciar a nadie, aunque se pase todo el tiempo intentando exibir su "poder". Se las tira de muy liberal, ...
FARC and Paras on Soccer Field in Peaceful Match
Deadly Enemies Meet on Soccer Field
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/soccer/3952830.html
Juan Pablo Montoya won the British Grand Prix
Juan Pablo Montoya won the British Grand Prix last year. Today Juan Pablo came in sixth place. Alonso is tromping everyone this year... Schumacher is way behind.
Nuevas Publicaciones en Castellano
LIBROS
Restrepo, L. (2006). Dulce compañÃa : novela. New York, Rayo.
Durán, F., J. Luke, et al. (2006). Cartel mortal. Thousand Oaks, CA, Distributed by Studio Latino.
Santodomingo, I. (2006). Un acto de fe Colombianos. Thousand Oaks, CA, Ventura Distribution.
Beto y Rodrigo se encuentran viviendo una vida dura en MedellÃŒn, Colombia, donde la cocaÃna y la violencia son parte de la vida cotidiana. Cansados de sentir que no son deuños de su prop ...
Books on Colombia with a publication date of 2007
Tales from the town of widows by James Cañón.
New York : HarperCollins, 2007. 1st ed. // Language: English // Book Genre : Fiction
Why Chibchacum carries the world : based on a Colombian legend by Sandy Sepehri & Brian Demeter.
Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Pub., 2007.
Language: English // Book Genre: Juvenile audience ...
In Celebration of Colombia's pure research theorists
I like to recognize and make public the work of outstanding Colombian researchers. I often post the work of Colombian scientists who are working on social or agricultural problems or on medical advances that have practical application. These Colombians are getting their work published in top-notch journals because Colombian scientists are world leaders in their fields.
But Colombia also has people working in purely theoretical areas. I want to celebrate this work also even though ...
Colombian tourist mecca is fuming under a layer of grime
This historic port city was once touted by the Colombian government as the next Acapulco, with its scenic bay, white sand beaches, colonial history and the eco-tourism potential of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, home to one of the largest and oldest pre-Columbian settlements in the Americas.
Then came the coal dust.
"It covers the plants, the furniture, enters the reception area and even the rooms," said Leonor Gomez Gonzalez, owner of the beachfront Park Hotel. ...
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