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Miami Herald columnist on Argentina
Colombia received more foreign investment last year than Argentina, and Peru received almost as much. ======================= http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/533743.html New president picks too many fights By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER Miami Herald, 15 May 2008 When Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won her country's elections last year, I wrote that she was likely to be an improvement over her predecessor and husband Néstor Kirchner. ...
1000 Tombs Discovered in Bogota (Natl Geo article)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html
Scum wearing the army uniform sentenced to rot and die in prison
Excellent news. I hope these sentences are upheld on appeal and they don't get paroled early. Now on to Congress! ============================== Former colonel gets 54-year term for massacre in Colombia By CESAR GARCIA – 14 hours ago CALI, Colombia (AP) — A judge on Wednesday gave a 54-year prison term to a cashiered army lieutenant colonel who was convicted of ordering the massacre of 10 elite anti-drug police in an ambush on a lonely country road. Judge Edmundo Lopez also ...
Flowers and Free Trade (NY Times video story)
Check it out, about half way down the home page. Lots of pretty pictures. It'll probably be relocated to the "world" or "business" sections after it falls off the home page today. http://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Boobs or eyes?
The story below is about a reduction in the number of Lasik surgery procedures, thought to be due to the slowing economy (insurance rarely pays for this type of surgery). I wonder if next week we'll be reading about people delaying breast implant operations. Hmmm... I wonder which a woman would choose if she equally wanted/needed Lasik and new boobs but only had enough money for one operation. Wait, this is America. She'll pay cash for one operation and put the other on her credit card. ;-) ...
Starbucks arrives in Little Colombia (Jackson Hts, Queens)
Read all about the debate (with reader comments at the bottom) here: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/frothing-over-a-starbucks-in-little-colombia/?hp
Former PBH member dies in Bolivian prison
Some of you may remember this nut. ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.kcra.com/news/15760967/detail.html Vampire From Placerville Dies In Bolivia Tristan Jay Amero Earlier Convicted Of Bombings LA PAZ, Bolivia -- A convicted hotel bomber and former Placerville resident who modeled himself on a fictional vampire has died after becoming ill in a prison in Bolivia, officials said. Tristan Jay Amero, 26, was serving a 30-year sentence for bombing two low-r ...
Religion in Colombia
I came across this link on the Miami Herald "Americas" page. Part three of the series is about Pentecostals/Evangelicals in Colombia. http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/pentecostals/
Iron Maiden to Rock Colombia
30,000 tickets selling quickly (or already sold out) in Bogota. http://www.imperiumi.net/news_2.php?id=5613
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Colombia fan participates in Pumpkin Regatta
OK, I know this is *barely* on topic, but the flag caught my eye in a newspaper story about pumpkin regattas in Canada and New England.
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Cheap Chinese shoes coming to Colombia
REUTERS (correction) Payless to enter Colombia via joint venture Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:44pm EDT Corrects spelling of "Colombia" throughout NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Payless ShoeSource, a unit of Collective Brands Inc (PSS.N: Quote, Profile, Research), said on Thursday it will open stores in Colombia starting next year through a joint venture with a local businessman. The shoe retailer said it expects to open 10 stores there starting next summer with the help of Colombian retail busi ...
Strange (stupid?) names for kids in Venezuela
Sixty sets of Venezuelan parents named their child Hitler. What a bunch of idiots! ======================== September 5, 2007 Caracas Journal A Culture of Naming That Even a Law May Not Tame By SIMON ROMERO CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 4 — Goodbye, Tutankamen del Sol. So long, Hengelberth, Maolenin, Kerbert Krishnamerk, Githanjaly, Yornaichel, Nixon and Yurbiladyberth. The prolifically inventive world of Venezuelan baby names may be coming to an end. If electoral officials here ...
Dumb Criminals
World Briefing Colombia: Wrong Target By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Published: September 8, 2007 An armed man who tried to rob a karate school in Bucaramanga was “disarmed� by the dozens of students there, the police said. When the police arrived at the scene, it was only to take the would-be robber to a hospital for multiple contusions. ...
Life in a FARC Camp
"Life in a FARC Camp" http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia263.htm, story posted August 27th "Interview with Raul Reyes" http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia259.htm, story posted July 12th I think the Canada-based author has gone beyond news gathering and is allowing himself to be used as a mouthpiece for the FARC. An interview is one thing, but after eating their food, sleeping in their camp for a few days and being a judge at one of their beauty pageants, I think whatever objectiv ...
Reminder: If you want to be sure Peter reads something...
...send him an private message, rather than a message on the public board. Monpirri - both of your posts directed to Peter have been demoted (they are still under your profile) and the post that broke the rules has been deleted. ...
Sobrabarriga, anyone?
www.eltiempo.com/economia/tierrasyganados/2007-06-30/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3618495.html
Random photos from Melgar & Girardot
River behind condo/apt place in Melgar.
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Buenaventura is deadliest large city
The full story plus a slide show:
www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/world/americas/22colombia.html
Excerpts:
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Killings in this city of about 300,000 climbed 30 percent last year, to 408, giving Buenaventura the nation’s highest homicide rate at 144 per 100,000, more than seven times the rate in Bogotá and four times that of MedellÃn. And this year, the police say, 222 people have been killed here.
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Swedish man kidnapped in Cordoba
Swedish citizen and wife missing, feared kidnapped, in Colombia
Bogota (dpa) - Colombian authorities were searching Friday for a Swedish citizen and his wife who were possibly abducted by an armed group in a rebel-controlled northern region of the country.
"A joint operation by the police and the army has been launched to determine if it is a disappearance or a kidnapping," Cordoba province police spokesman Roger Cordero told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Anything for a buck (fake cocaine)
The product:
www.drinkcocaineshop.com
The story about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration getting ready to shut them down:
www.startribune.com/484/story/1114039.html
The warning letter from the FDA:
www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/b6312d.htm ...
Food pictures and recipes
http://nikas-culinaria.com/category/colombian-food/
Just came across this site. A dozen or so recipes, food preparation tips and very high quality photos.
Cost of water and sewer service in Bogota
Some here have wondered about the price differences in utilities across estratos. I was cleaning up some favorites/bookmarks recently and came across this site:
www.acueducto.com.co/wpsv5/wps/portal
Click on "tariffs" on the home page and you can download an Excel file that shows the fixed and variable costs by month for residential estratos 1-6 plus commercial rates. There is one Excel sheet for water service and one for sewer service.
In general, va ...
Colombia Clean
This is pretty good and made the front page of "El Tiempo"
www.amnestyusa.org/countries/colombia/animation.html
Medellin debates future of bullfighting
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/02/13/local-government-supports-anti-bullfighting-movement-in-medellin-colombia
Why is Col. paper money getting smaller?
I noticed the 1000 and 2000 peso bills have changed. Are all the denominations going to shrink? Anyone know why? Perhaps a dark conspiracy run by the leather industry to make everyone go out and buy a new wallet? ;-) ...
Areas to live in Cartagena?
MCLEAN04 - I am reposting this to the general talk forum (moving it from the travel guide forum). -Tinto
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Places to Live
What area in or around Cartagena would be a secure comfortable place for a gringo to live?
By mclean04 at Mon, 01/01/2007 - 15:08 | ...
Immigration limbo for Col. wife of Georgia state senator
Georgia Legislator’s Wife Battles Deportation Order
By BRENDA GOODMAN, NY TIMES
Published: December 3, 2006
ATLANTA, Dec. 1 — The wife of a Georgia legislator known for his strong support of immigrants’ rights is in hiding after federal agents came to their home on Tuesday with an order to deport her to her native Colombia, her lawyer said.
In a written statement issued on Wednesday, State Senator Curt Thompson, 37, a Democrat, said his w ...
Where do you live (poll from BxUnica)
Is this close to the archeological reserve?
Posted on Wed, Nov. 01, 2006
Colombia rebels kill at least 15 police
Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia - Hundreds of leftist rebels bombarded a remote police station with makeshift mortars during a six-hour attack in northern Colombia Wednesday, killing at least 15 officers, authorities said.
The attack on the police station in the village of Tierradentro, 230 miles northwest of Bogota, was the bloodiest since President Alvaro Uribe was re-elec ...
Processing times (USCIS site)
My cousin married a woman from Peru and she recently attained U.S. citizenship. They think I know something about Latin America visas (haha) and are asking how long it takes to sponsor a sibling. According to the site below, I-130s from early 2001 are only now being processed. Does this sound correct, does it really take five plus years? Also, all the service center pages were updated on Sept 19, 2006...anyone know how frequently they update these pages? Thanks.
https://egov.immig ...
A public service announcement
Please...
1. Stop using words like "nigger." I read that thread and deleted some of the posts after it was clear the offender did not make a single unfortunate reference. He followed up his initial remarks with more ugly biases and sterotypes. Keep your thoughts to yourself or find another website.
2. There is no surer way to make Colombians (male and female) feel unwelcome on this site than to create lists of Colombian cities with the ugliest women and the dumbest ...
Born in Colombia, living in the U.S.
FYI - The latest estimate from the Census Bureau shows about 560,000 Colombian-born people living in the U.S.
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Bling for bras
www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15269294.htm
www.strappity.com/
This developing (haha) business has a Colombian angle, the beaded bra straps are made by a family in Colombia and sold by relatives in Ohio. ...
A caution about the Buy & Sell forum
It has come to my attention that some PBH members with an apartment for sale or rent are getting "scam offers" via email. A recent offer concerned an interested party that wanted to ship some ITALIAN FURNITURE from EBAN SRL FURNITURE COMPANY (emphasis not mine) to Colombia and wanted the apartment owner to pay the customs fees when the furniture arrived. The interested party promised to reimburse the customs fees with the first rent check, of course.
As scams go, it was poorly wri ...
Tourism: 1 step forward, 1 step back
Article in the Miami Herald about the Lost City:
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/14874514.htm
Adjacent article by the same reporter about a side trip to a working cocaine laboratory:
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/travel/14874539.htm
The tour guide/cocaine lab operator must have nothing to fear from the police. He gives his name and age and allows people to take pictures... ...
Be careful when walking
Sobering numbers... As others have said, traffic may be your biggest risk when out and about in the large cities.
En Bogotá, cada 23 horas muere una persona en accidentes de tránsito
Los informes más recientes también indican que cada tres horas, en promedio, hay un herido de consideración y cada 42 minutos, un choque simple.
En lo que va corrido del año, las autoridades de la capital han reportado la muerte de 108 personas en accidentes de trá ...
Repost from Jeny
(the original got "lost" in the STORY forum, which is no longer accessible)
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Necesito una opinion
Hola, quiero hacerme una cirujia en cali y me recomendaron un doctor llamado jorge triana o carlos triana no estoy segura, me dijeron que es buenisimo y quisiera que alguien me diera su opinion, escribanme a mi email cubajeny at yahoo.com
Gracias
Jeny ...
Jesus in Colombia!
I love these stories -- Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich, a shriveled up potato, on a water tank -- and now He appears in a mold formation on a wall.
;-)
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_114113955.html ...
Sabas Pretelt = Baghdad Bob?
This is funny. The U.S. (in another article) said they changed the measuring methods to include more territory...regardless, Pretelt says the U.S. numbers are inaccurate.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI) -- The Colombian government has rejected estimates of coca production increases put forward by the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Interior Minister Sabas Pretelt said the increase in production was not nearly as high as th ...
Interview with software developer in Cali
Might provide a little background on software development and technical project management in Colombia.
www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/global_colombia.html
Interview with a journalist in exile
Daniel Coronell, 41 years old, currently at Stanford University. Sounds like he might be returning to Colombia soon. Some of the death threats appear to have come from a cattle rancher/para/narco who travels in the same social circles as President Uribe.
www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14130354.htm ...
Tax free boobies!
Alvaro wants to create a tax free zone to encourage more plastic surgery tourism.
http://money.canoe.ca/News/TopPhoto/2006/03/13/1485862.html
Map of Cartagena high rises (large image)
This is courtesy of member name "Wastelandlive"
13 predictions for 2006
This is written by Adam Isacson, el jefe of the Colombia Program at the Center for International Policy. He and I share a decidedly pessimistic view concerning the AUC demobilizations. I called them a farce, he uses words like collapse and implode. Re the FARC, he predicts the bloodiest six month period (first half 2006) of this decade.
www.ciponline.org/colombia/blog/archives/000192.htm ...
There goes another one
check out Google News Colombia for the stories about the murdured futbol player and his friend. Note: The Eurosport.com writer needs some help with his/her headline: "Colombia player murdered again"
On the sunny side, the "Daily Journal" from Venezuela is running a story about a 23% reduced homicide rate* for 2005 and there are a few references to another one of those happiness studies where Colombia ranks high.
*I think these figures exclude war/conflict fataliti ...
Christmas wish comes true
Yippee! The national statistics agency updated their web site from a circa 1996 hodgepodge of crude, animated icons to a far cleaner and better organized place to find information. Kudos to those involved for keeping many of the downloads in a non-protected Excel format.
www.dane.gov.co ...
The floodgate$$ are opening
Must be a new budget cycle or something
www.fpa.org/jobs_contact2423/jobs_contact_show.htm?doc_id=325913
www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7251
Step right up and get yourself one of these U.S. Grade A-certified consulting jobs! ...
Misc posts (re-posted)
THESE POSTS WERE ACCIDENTALLY MADE IN THE "STICKY" THREAD AT THE TOP OF THIS FORUM. You might want to create a new thread with your message for better visibility.
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Apartment in Bogota
Submitted by jtreers on Sun, 10/30/2005 - 14:34.
Hi,
I am interested in buying an apartment in Bogota. Minimum two bedrooms, possibly along the route of the planned Transmilenium extensions.
Please send me a PM if you are selling or ar ...
Final re-election decision might come today
(Friday, 11 November)
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11253947.htm
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