Geneva — A UN report dated May 27, but made public today, says that ‘Colombia has made important security gains after decades of armed conflict and gross human rights violations, but serious problems with its security policies have undermined the very goals the Government seeks to achieve.’ The conclusions are of Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Reporter on extrajudicial executions. (more…)
On 2010/07/30, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
On 2010/07/30, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
The hopes of many of a solution to the Colombian-Venezuelan diplomatic crisis in the UNASUR chancellors summit in Quito reach nothing in concrete. Things remained strictly at the same point of July 22 when the Colombian government denounced before OAS the presence of guerrilla camps in the Venezuelan territory with the consecutive denial of Caracas. There was only the compromise of a new summit of presidents. (more…)
On 2010/07/29, In Economy, By Albeiro Rodas
Senator Antonio Guerra is proposing to remove three zeros from the Colombian Peso (COP), said Dinero Magazine. If that project is approved by the Congress, it would cost to the Nation about 150,000 million pesos that is 81.3 million dollars. (more…)
ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper, published two photographies showing president Fernando Lugo and the Venezuelan chancellor, Nicolás Maduro, with Adriano Muñoz, the brother of agronomist Zonia Ignacia Muñoz that is jailed for the kidnapping in 2008 of cattle rancher Luis Alberto Lindstron Picco. Adriano Maduro is hold by the authorities as one of the logistic managers of the ‘Army of the Paraguayan People‘ guerrilla (EPP), according with the newspaper. (more…)
Colombiamoda 2010 closes the month of July in Medellín, the South American city of fashion in its traditional fashion show in Plaza Mayor. Creativity and transformation are the labels this time to gather the textile sector in design. Exhibitors of leather, footwear and jewelry were invited, as an essential part of modern clothing. Proexport Colombia is the main sponsor of the efforts of Inexmoda to offer to the international community the best of the Colombian textile city.
Picture from Colombiamoda 2010
The Parliament of Catalonia decreed a prohibition to bullfighting in the northeast of Spain that will be enforced after January 1rst, 2012. The project of law was known as the Popular Legislative Initiative and was presented by 180 thousand citizens asking the definite suspension of bullfighting in the Catalonia region, an activity that is considered for many as a Hispanic tradition not only in Spain but in most Hispanic American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela. Ecuador and Peru. The congressmen voted 68 in favor of the prohibition, 55 against and 9 abstentions. (more…)
Colombia dismissed a peace proposal for its internal conflict that Venezuela intends to present in the summit of chancellors of UNASUR, the South American Union of Nations, in Quito. Colombian chancellor Jaime Bermúdez declared that it is not a fundamental solution. (more…)
The last days of Álvaro Uribe Vélez as president of the Colombians has been especially active preparing the setting for the next leader at the Nariño House. Putting things ‘at place’ inside and outside, the president has declared for example that those who denounced the existence of mass graves in Macarena are ‘enemies of the democratic security‘ and that peace process proposals are strategies of ‘terrorist in order to recover‘, while his government presented proves to OAS of guerrilla camps in Venezuela, causing the expected anger of Chávez with his subsequent breakdown of diplomatic relations with Colombia. (more…)
One of the curiosities of the celebrations of 200 hundred years of the independence of Colombia from Spain was the opening of the centennial urn of Bogotá by Major Samuel Moreno and President Álvaro Uribe. The urn was closed in 1911 during the 100th anniversary of the war for the end of the Spaniard colonial regime. The municipality is inviting Bogotaneans to contribute for the next urn that must be opened in 2110.
Photo: Major Moreno holding a 1910´s map of Bogotá that was inside the centennial urn.
The family of soccer player Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga, who was murdered in Medellín in 1994, rejected the documentary of Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, The Two Escobar, as a deceived to their good faith and an offense to the memory of the sportsman. (more…)
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