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The march had been scheduled to begin at 11:00 on Tuesday morning. Gradually, more people came to the Palestinian embassy in Bogotá. At noon, around 150 demonstrators, most of them young people, departed eastwards, in direction to the building [...]

The election of the candidate of hope and change as president of the most powerful nation on Earth (for now, whether we like it or not) was celebrated all over the world, from Kenya (where his father was born) to Japan (where there’s a city named Obama). In Colombia, of course, black people felt identified with Barack Obama and celebrated his win their way.

Indigenous clash with police in Cauca (Photo: Simone Bruno vía Indymedia Colombia)
While the Colombian government deals with scandal after scandal, in the last few weeks we have witnessed, again, protests from different sectors: the judiciary branch, the sugar cane cutters, and indigenous peoples. But why if Colombia’s the second happiest country on Earth? Why if [...]

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.

Just like one year ago in our Spanish-language version and for the first time in English, equinoXio wishes to pay a tribute, fair and deserved, to the best half of humankind. Today, we just remember you more than usual.

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Fernando Araújo Perdomo stated his country is respectful of Cuban leader / dictator’s decision to step down from power in Cuba, announced on Tuesday morning.

A Cali judge declared 15 soldiers, including lieutenant colonel Byron Carvajal, guilty of the so-called Jamundí massacre, when 10 elite US-trained anti-narcotics policemen and one civilian were murdered in the town of the same name on 22 May 2006.

Francisco Santos Calderón defended the proposal by ruling party of the U supporting President Álvaro Uribe’s third term in 2010.

According to Colombia’s Justice Vice Minister, most of the COP$11 million (€4,000, US$5,800) found in Itagüí maximum security prison, along with weapons, drugs, and alcohol, belong to former United Self-defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) chief Iván Roberto Duque, best known as Ernesto Báez

After the uproar caused by his alleged arrest because of after putting some tough questions to Ricardo Alarcón, the president of the Cuban parliament, Havana’s University of Information Sciences (UCI) student representative Eliécer Ávila appeared in a video posted in a Cuban government-supportive website claiming there was no such arrest and that there was “manipulation” from foreign media.