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.
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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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
Colombia is the second American country to be the seat of Campus Party, a Spaniard Festival on Digital Technology that will have Corferias as its headquarters between June 23 and 29.
By Albeiro Rodas – Picture from Campus Party Brazil
Colombia Passport. Campus Party is one of the biggest European LAN Party that recently conquered the Americas with its activities. A LAN Party is a big meeting of persons with their computers to play and share information and technology. It is realized every year gathering fans of technology from all Europe. This year Campus Party crossed the Atlantic first in Brazil by February and now in Colombia, a country that was not contemplated in the list, but the invitation of Telecom and the perspectives of a successful program in the second South American capital brought the Campus Party to the Andean nation. (more…)
About 300 fake passports and visas are detected by the police of the Barajas International Airport, according with a report of EFE TV of last May. Most of the passports were hold by Colombian, Peruvian and Dominican citizens, who used fake passports from countries that do not need visa to come into the European Community or have less controls.
Many of those citizens use to pay big amounts of money in their countries to criminal nets of fakers in about USA 500. The fakers frequent the surroundings of foreign consulates and embassies to aboard persons who are applying for visas. Many of the persons, who agreed to get their visa in that way, were thinking that they were contracting a kind of visa service agency, but many of them did it knowing that they were getting fake visas or passports. (more…)
The Spaniard Chancellor Miguel Angel Moratinos announced in Germany that he will visit this month Colombia and Venezuela to work for a restitution of dialogues and relations between the two South American countries.
He said that Madrid and Caracas restablished relations after the Latin America – European Summit in Lima last month and that Hugo Chávez and Rodriguez Zapatero hold a normalization of relations dialogue in the Inca capital.
Moratinos said that he want to discuss also the problem of the Farc guerrillas in Colombia and the relations of this group with ETA in Spain after the public opinion knew from the computers of late Raul Reyes that Farc was planning attacks against Colombian personalities in Spaniard territory, like Vice President Francisco Santos and former president Andrés Pastrana.
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