A quite personal report on what happened at Bogotá’s Los Andes University on Wednesday 8 October, when strong winds managed to partially knock down the façade of a recently inaugurated building, donated by Colombia’s second richest man. This is the first translated post from the Colombian blogosphere featured at equinoXio english edition.

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 […]

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.

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.

The biggest feeling that 6-M (and why not, the 4-F too) left both of us is that Colombians need more sensitivity and memory, which will not be solved with more demonstrations, despite all the respect this kind of mobilizations deserve. Again, our problem is a cultural and political one.

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Despite the invisibility of the demonstration held on 6 March 2008, with short mentions on the mass media, having been pointed out as pro-guerrilla and anti-government, in Colombia and overseas Colombians went out to the streets to remind the country that the victims of its violence exist. At least 200,000 […]

It was a march quite different from the one on 4 February. Here, it was not the anger only against one armed organization, but against all the violence which took this country over, against the lack of memory, against indifference, against impunity, against corruption, against anything which has made Colombia a worldwide example of violence.

In the locality of Kennedy, south Bogotá, a criminal band swindled several unwary people out and stoled them around COP$ 3 billion (€1 million, US$1.56 million) using the “pyramid” scheme.

Photospecial with pictures of the demonstration held at the north of Bogotá.