Facebook is a huge success in Colombia, with more than 1.3 million users. Several months after Facebook Pages launch, let’s see how many famous Colombian people are there today.
Costa Rican Foreign Ministry denied former Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, 58, cousin of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a political asylum request, after the Colombian General Attorney’s office issued early Tuesday an arrest warrant on alleged links with paramilitary militias.
This is a very subjective review on the documentary El Bogotazo: la historia de una ilusión ("El Bogotazo, the history of an illusion"), which premiered Wednesday night on Colombia’s Caracol TV and History Channel Latin America.
A popular revolt in 1948, a peaceful march sixty years later. And politics remains as the rake sweeping the aspirations of men and women who only wish to live in peace, above the soil we happened to be born.
Most Colombians believe that if charismatic Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán had not been shot on 9 April 1948, he would have become President of Colombia in 1950, and maybe the fate of this troubled South American country would have been quite different. The local blogosphere also remembered this important day.
Today Colombians mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Party’s leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. This week, equinoXio will bring our English-language readers a small special tribute to his legacy, his ideas, and the consequences of his murder, regarded as one of the main causes to the subsequent violence which keeps storming our country.
With the 4 April demonstration the issue of a coming release of Colombian-French former presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt, or at least, the medical treatment scheduled unilaterally by the President of France, is over.
