Colombians Celebrate Hostage Release, Colombian Independence
Region: Colombia
Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra After the rescue of 15 high profile hostages held in the FARC's power on July 2nd 2008, the same group that organized the last global march on February 4th against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) decided that there should be a another one on July 20th, the day when Colombia's Independence from Spain is celebrated. The following videos and photographs show the... more
Views: 1456Drug Smugglers Go Underwater
Region: Colombia
As drug smuggling becomes more and more dicey, smugglers are becoming more and more resourceful. Smugglers for years have used fast boats on the water to get their illegal wares to customers. But now they've taken to traveling under the water in homemade submarines that are very difficult to detect. The Mexican navy seized one of them just this week in the Pacific, about 125 miles off the southern state of Oaxaca. T... more
Views: 2453Future Wide Open to Ingrid Betancourt Following Rescue
Region: Colombia
Posted by Josh Katz to FindingDulcinea Not a week has past since Ingrid Betancourt was rescued from the jungles of Colombia, and she is already fighting for the causes she believes in. During her six years as a captive, Betancourt spent time chained to a tree and withstood stints of serious illness. She told France 24 television that there were times when she was forced to plod 15 miles a day through the jungle. ... more
Views: 1058Colombia Hostage Rescue Raises Concerns
Region: Colombia
Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra to Global Voices Online The rescue was dubbed as “perfect” by liberated former Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued by the Colombian army on Wednesday July 2nd along with 14 other hostages being held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for up to 10 years in some cases. However, the Colombian community has been voicing conce... more
Views: 1292Flower Worker Mother’s Day Card Shows You Care About Rights of All Mothers
Region: Colombia
- by James Parks Mother’s Day is one of the biggest days in the year for flower sales. But the thousands of women who pick most of the flowers we give proudly to our mothers will not enjoy that day. More than 60 percent of the flowers sold in the United States come from Colombia. Two-thirds of the nearly 100,000 flower workers in Colombia are women, many of them working mothers. They often are re... more
Views: 1573Bush Plan to Push Colombia Deal: ‘Outrageous Disregard for Human Rights’
Region: Colombia
- by James Parks President Bush’s decision to send the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress over the strong objections of the leadership of both the House and the Senate “shows an outrageous disregard for basic human and workers’ rights,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says. In a statement, Sweeney says: Workers in Colombia are terrorized every day f... more
Views: 1241Colombia: Bloggers Gathering Signatures for Copyright and Industrial Property Letter
Region: Colombia
by Juliana Rincón Parra Carolina Botero, lawyer and Creative Commons promoter in Colombia has been asking bloggers and anyone else with computer access and an interest in what are popularly called “intellectual property rights” to sign an open letter which will be sent to CONPES, the National Council for Social and Economic Politics, to counter a bill the DNP (National Planning Department) previousl... more
Views: 1247Colombia: Contest Brings Forth Multimedia Citizen Journalists
Region: Colombia
by Juliana Rincón Parra Showing hidden Colombia through online tools could get you inside the Googleplex, if your work wins the “Best told place in Colombia” contest. Most of the links in this article will send you to websites in Spanish, unless otherwise noted. Semana publications in Colombia has opened a contest along with Google for anyone, regardless of nationality, to write, show and create con... more
Views: 1048Act Now to Stop Colombia Free Trade Deal
Region: Colombia
by James Parks, Mar 24, 2008 With the U.S. economy in near free fall, President Bush has said he will send the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Capitol Hill and demand a vote before he leaves office next January. Bush has made passing this agreement, which will do next to nothing for the failing U.S. economy, a priority. Despite objections by the Democratic congressional... more
Views: 1135Government To Compensate "El Loco"
Region: ColombiaFormer Colombian international goalkeeper René Higuita will receive US$17,344 from the Colombian government due to his illegal arrest and detainment back in 1993. The decision was handed down today by the Colombian Constitutional Court which condemned the government's actions against the former Atlético Nacional goalkeeper. &nb... more
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