Court nullifies Senate votes (0)
7/08/09 •
34 thousand votes for Colombia’s Senate were nullified by the State Council due to irregularities in the 2006 Senate elections, said Rafael Ostau de Lafont, president of the State Council. The votes will have to be recounted.
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Soccer: Tino Asprilla forever! (0)
7/05/09 •
Colombian soccer player Faustino “Tino” Asprilla, known also as ‘Octopus‘, said farewell to the sport Saturday in a friendly game attended by other celebrated figures like ‘Pibe’ Valderrama, Iván Ramiro Córdoba, Harold Lozana, ‘Tren’ Valencia, ‘Chicho’ Serna and Brazilians Roque Junior, Liz and Aílton.
Embera fear complete extinction of culture (0)
7/04/09 •
Conflicts of interests between multinationals and indigenous groups are not only confined to legal debate over property rights. If you ask the indigenous Embera in Choco, their fight against a mining project isn’t just a conflict about their legal ownership of the land, but a project that threatens to completely demolish their culture.
‘Amazon Tarzan’ honored in Leticia (0)
7/01/09 •
“Kapax” is a name well known by Colombians. It is associated to the “Tarzan of the Amazon“, a man who in 1976 decided to swim the Magdalena River from its source at the south to Barranquilla on the Caribbean coast. The adventure meant a 1,700 kilometers (1 056.33103 miles) swim.
Tecktonik: the new euphoria of collages and juxtapositions of style (0)
7/01/09 •
I consider it wrong that every time there a new youth trend emerges that involves aesthetic elements, such as dress, the society stereotypes, or as is usual in a big city or “big town” like Medellín, to consider a priori such expressions as a new “Urban Tribe.” We need to overcome the sociological concept [...]
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