Colombia - Page loaded 21.11.2008 06:30:03 COT
This week one of the biggest LAN parties in the world arrived to Colombia: Campus Party. Held in Spain since 1997, this year Campus Party left Europe for São Paulo (February) and Bogotá (June), in order to bring technology and innovation not only for the fans but also for the common people.
equinoXio has been invited […]
Pedro Antonio Marín (Manuel Marulanda Vélez, Tirofijo or Sureshot) and Guillermo León Sáenz (Alfonso Cano)
On 25 May 2008, Rodrigo Londoño, aka Timoleón Jiménez or Timochenko, confirmed the death last 26 March of 78-year-old Pedro Antonio Marín, aka Manuel Marulanda Vélez or Tirofijo (Sureshot), Colombian guerrilla FARC’s top leader. The confirmation came on a video broadcast […]
Marulanda died and Colombia starts to get used to it. After the euphoria of the Uribista hawks who, headed by Interior Minister Holguín, came out to preach the enemy’s total extermination, everything will return to normal. The FARC are not over, and peace is not so close either.
This time was for real, and on a bed. In the past, the newspapers’ headlines held a wake for him 18 times, in step to military prayers, but he ran away every one of them. From Marquetalia to Venezuela, this man with sallow look, who Pastrana made Caguán’s Star, always mocked death.
