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60 years of Colombian Professional Football

Rafa XII — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:56:37 +0000

On 7 July 1948, the assembly of the recently founded Major Division of Colombian Football, Dimayor, determined that since August, they would hold an annual football championship of first division in Colombia, with the participation of teams coming from the most important cities in the country.

Jaque, a “perfect” rescue operation

Marsares — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:42:07 +0000

Este artículo puede leerse en ESPAÑOL Yolanda Pulecio, Colombian military chief general Fredy Padilla de León, Íngrid Betancourt and Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos, at Bogotá’s CATAM military airport, on 2 July 2008 afternoon (Photo credit: Juan Felipe Barriga / Secretaría de Prensa de la Presidencia de la República) “Perfect”. The term Íngrid Betancourt used to refer [...]

Campus Party Colombia 2008

equinoXio — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:50:13 +0000

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 [...]

After Marulanda’s death, what is the future of FARC?

equinoXio — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:02:52 +0000

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 [...]

Alfonso Cano, peace or war ideologue?

Marsares — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:39:44 +0000

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.

Sureshot’s last death

Marsares — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:37:22 +0000

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.

Colombian movie uses Creative Commons licence for a soundtrack

carobotero — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:28:07 +0000

Last April a movie, Perro come perro (dog eat dog), premiered in Colombian cinema halls to raving reviews that promised great success. One of the songs in the soundtrack for Perro come perro, Las reglas (The Rules) by Malalma, is available on the website for free downloading and for sharing under a Creative Commons licence byncnd 2.5 Colombia. Yes, it is the most restrictive licence, but this is still a milestone!

Analysis: Interpol confirms authenticity of seized Raúl Reyes’s laptops and hardware

equinoXio — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:36:06 +0000

From left to right, general Óscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL’s Secretary General, and María del Pilar Hurtado, director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), on Bogotá, 15 May (Photo credit: teleSUR) As we did on Wednesday with the extradition of 14 paramilitary chiefs to the United States, equinoXio [...]

Uribe keeps squeezing Raúl Reyes

Marsares — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:50:39 +0000

Here it comes again. Venezuela-Colombia relationships enter a limbo which gets them closer to hell, this time because of the INTERPOL report claiming the absence of manipulation on the laptops seized at the camp where FARC' second top chief aka Raúl Reyes was killed in March.

Raúl Reyes’s laptops belonged to Raúl Reyes

Jaime Restrepo — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:50:13 +0000

This is the second blow against FARC and its allies in a little more than two months, because INTERPOL's certification implies an independent warranty that the proofs found at the Ecuadorian camp were not contaminated. If the Colombian government had not taken the decision to ask an audit on the devices and their content, the opposition -specially the people mentioned in the Reyes dossier- would be screaming that Uribe and his "thugs" manipulated the information to start a persecution on his political opponents, for sure.