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Is the CIA behind the 4 February march against FARC?

Opinion By Marsares

3 February 2008

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The neighbourhood is nervous. The 4 February demonstration spoils their plans. With what face will they continue their efforts to sell the world the altruist spirit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), if the same people which they claim to represent rejects them publicly, pointing them as what they are, a group that violates the Geneva Conventions sistematically and whose degradation transformed a social revolution into a latrine with the most basic instincts?

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The beginnings of football in Colombia

Opinion > With my studs up! By Rafa XIII

3 February 2008

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Polo Club 1896
This image was taken in La Magdalena court (now “calle 39th” in Bogotá), before a football game between Polo Club and colonel Lemly’s Military School. On the picture we can see, among others, Ulpiano Valenzuela, Alejandro Santamaría, Carlos Obregón, Carlos Dávila, Ignacio Barberi, Julio Sáenz, Pepe Obregón (Team captain), Juan Uribe de Brigard, and Carlos Sanz.

For a long time, the thesis that the cities of the Colombian Atlantic Coast were the pioneers in the country in practising the modern football, -as established by the English colleges and public schools in the end of 19th century-, was regarded as the strongest one, provided that the historians were based on documents of that time, such as photographs, press articles regarding to the facts and testimonies given by people that were at the events, all kept for the posterity in several books on the history of Colombian football.

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