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The Korean-American Asian film producer, Roy Lee, visited Medellín invited by the Contento Pictures‘ film entrepreneur Alejandro Arango. Other prominent Hollywood figures like Bill Choi, Stuart Manashill and Sebastián Aloi were in the excursion to the Andean city to know places for future productions, according to the Antioquia’s government that supports the Arango’s initiative.
President Juan Manuel Santos opened the 50th anniversary of Juan Valdez in Bogotá yesterday in the main headquarters of the National Federation of Coffee growers. It is also the beginning of different programs in 18 places of Colombia, especially in the coffee regions. In his presidential speech inauguration, Santos put Juan Valdez, a fictional Colombian character to promote internationally the national coffee, as the model of what the farmers should be. ‘Let us defend the Colombian farmer, let us make him an enterpriser, to support him with technologies and credits, to make every farmer a prosperous Juan Valdez,‘ he said.
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The 23rd edition of the International Fair of the Book of Bogotá was inaugurated by president Juan Manuel Santos. The event is dedicated this year to the 200th anniversary of the independence of Colombia from Spain.
Colombians-in-Barcelona. The American Mexican actress, Eva Longoria, will be the protagonist of ‘Without Men’, a movie based on the international Colombian bestseller ‘The Village of the Widows’ of James Cañón.
Photo Eva Longoria and Tony Parker by watchwithkristin
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The government of France will give this month the Legion of Honor Award to the Colombian entrepreneur and scientist Carlos Moreno, according to RedEsColombia. Moreno, who is settled in the European country since 1979, developed an alert system of artificial intelligence.
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This month North Carolina saw the inauguration of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Salon.com said that the city spent USD 195 million on the work to be huge and technological to honor the most memorable moments and sportsmen of NASCAR, like 154 video screens, racing simulators and other high technology stuff. What is important for Colombians is that one of their international heroes, race car racer Juan Pablo Montoya, was included in the Hall of Fame. Montoya has been one of the most well known international Hispanic pilots and he has now a place in the North Caroline Hall of Fame among the best of the NASCAR’s history. He was located in a stand known as ‘Diversity’.
Photo Montoya, Schumacher and Alonso by Dan Smith
A Colombian disable, Nelson Cardona, climbed the highest summit of the planet: Everest. He is member of the Colombian Mountain Expedition ‘No Borders Epic’ 2010 with other sportsmen like Rafael Ávila, Juan Pablo Ruíz, Antonio José Henao and Carolina Ahumada.
Photo by mckaysavage
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Guillermo Aponte is the new president of Coca Cola Far East Ltd, the subsidiary of Coca Cola Philippines.
Surely worst than the long Colombian conflict, it is the reality of its street children in the biggest cities. The Gamín (street boy in Colombian idioms), became almost a traditional character. Even if some people and groups complain of the lack of more definitive projects to end the problem of unprotected children in the Colombian streets, it is possible to find a good list of institutions, private and officials, doing something. The problem stands in the same conflict. Only the growing number of displaced farm families, fleeing from war-zones and taking refuse in the cities, is a definitive source of children on the streets with all its consequences.
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Colombia Reports and now Colombia Passport want to join campaigns of good initiatives to support the less fortunate in Colombia this Christmas time, especially children and youth.
Here we find US citizen Mark Kaseman, who has been for four years around Medellín bringing food and clothes to hundreds of the city’s poorest.
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