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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.
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.
A group of scholars directed by the Bogotanean writer Andrés Ospina and the support of literature student Paula Moya (Javeriana University) and fine arts student Laura Peralta (Jorge Tadeo Lozano University), will launch in July a research on the evolution of Spanish language in Bogotá. The work has the title Bogotálogo: usos, desusos y abusos del español hablado en Bogotá (Bototalogian: uses, disuses and abuses of the Spanish spoken in Bogotá.)
Photo Colombian Academy of the Language, the first and oldest academy of the world dedicated to the Spanish language. Photo by Pedro Felipe
The Colombian Police and the General National Prosecutor, arrested 11 men in Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, under the charge of drug trafficking, reported RCN and EnSemana. They belong to an international net of traffickers leaded by a man identified as ‘Gordillo’ (‘little fat one’.)
File: Drug trade map by DEA
Cali. The south-western state of Valle del Cauca is the leader in the group of Colombians migrating to countries like Spain and United States, according to a research of El Tiempo newspaper. The 25 percent of the Colombian migrants abroad come from this region, which capital is Cali, one of the main urban and industrial centers of the coffee nation. It is estimated that about 4 million Colombians are residing abroad.
Photo Colombia en London
Spaniards are used to the thousand of African migrants that arrive to the Iberian coasts every year. They know also that most of them would be sent back by authorities once their safety and conditions will be guaranteed. But this time one of those African migrants moved their heart. He was Moszy, a boy of 17 years old who arrived to Canarias in a boat with clandestine migrants from the West of Africa. He is an albino and asked political asylum.
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We still to know how would be the relations between Obama and Uribe, but it seems that the relations Obama and Caballero are at their highest ranking. At least the elconfidencial.com digital magazine from Spain is suggesting that president Obama wore the bulletproof vest designed by the Colombian fashion designer.
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Spain would accept the prisoners of Guantanamo as a way to help the project of president Obama to close that prison, said president Zapatero. The president of the Spaniards talk in the Congress about the new US president, Barack Obama. He said that hopes the Guantanamo prison will be closed soon, He pointed out that it is a responsibility of the North American administration, but he is ready to help in such campaign.
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The municipality of Cádiz, Spain, decided to give an award to President Álvaro Uribe for his fights in favor of freedom. It is the first version of the recent created award that the Spaniard city wants to give to persons or organizations that contribute for freedom in the Spanish-speaking world.
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More Colombian migrants in Spain received permanent residence this year than former times, according to Spaniard Permanent Migration Observer in its September report, informed by Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
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