By Dr. Ana Arjona LatinaLista At least seven Afro-Colombians have been shot in Colombia’s capital Bogota this year. According to community members, these are homicides incited by racism. The assassins of the last two victims — dancers dedicated to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Tu Mundo Periodicals & Organi Co. Baby Food One of the world’s largest slums known for its rampant levels of violence is Colombia’s Ciudad Bolivar. Families who come to live there have been displaced from their…
LatinaLista — For the people in the Colombian village of Bolombolo, the sight of so much fish last weekend seemed like a miracle from God. At a time when a good catch is hard to come by and the…
LatinaLista — A geologic event happening a million years ago in “science-speak” is considered among scientists to be a recent event. But when new data shows that same geologic event happening much earlier — over 10 million years earlier,…
By Emil Foget Colombia Reports Authorities in southwestern Colombia have raised alert levels on Tuesday after a 5.6M earthquake hit the border region, sparking concerns that two nearby volcanoes might erupt in a matter of days. Colombia’s Geological Service…
By Gabrielle Mentjox Colombia Reports Colombia’s Defense Minister said Thursday the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, are the biggest violators of women’s human rights in the country, having kidnapped 261 women and committed 394 homicides between 2003 and…
LatinaLista — Crowdfunder: Telling the story of 14,000 forcibly displaced Colombians For 50 years, a conflict has raged over influence in Colombian territory. The fighting, between the Colombian government, paramilitary groups, armed drug traffickers and left-wing guerrilla groups, has…
By Christoffer Frendesen Colombia Reports Demobilized female rebels, many of whom were forced into guerilla groups against their will, are now searching for the children they were made to abandon, according to BBC Mundo reports. Female rebels, “banned” from…
LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Right Down To The Bones: Inside A Medellín Slum Reporter Wesley Tomaselli is using crowdfunding platform Beacon to fund his reporting on life in Colombia. When you think of Colombians, it’s easy to think of…
LatinaLista — One corner of the world has a new superhero and he’s battling one of the most dangerous villains of our time — hunger! Three days a week in the city of Bucamaranga, Colombia, a masked, cape-wearing Good…
By John Newton La Voz Latina Savannah musician Alex Castillo, age 36, is a lead singer/guitarist for the Christian folk/rock band called “Reckless Mercy”. His father is a native of Colombia, South America and his mother was born in…
LatinaLista — What does lingerie have to do with empowering women? For Colombian-born Catalina Girald, it has everything to do with her San Francisco-based year-old lingerie start-up Naja. Girald’s definition of empowerment isn’t focused only on making women feel…
By Victoria McKenzie Colombia Reports Colombia’s Press Association is lending 52 tons of paper to three national Venezuelan newspapers on the verge of shutting down due to insufficient supplies to non state-owned dailies. Nora Sanin, executive director of Colombian…
By Taran Volckhausen Colombia Reports The Bogota-based Lemur Studio has released a product design for a wearable detector aimed at helping Colombia’s rural populations avoid landmines left hidden from over a half-century of armed conflict, Project Director Lorena Cardenas…
LatinaLista — Wikipedia defines a páramo as the ecosystem of the regions above the continuous forest line, yet below the permanent snowline. It is a ‘Neotropical high mountain biome with a vegetation composed mainly of giant rosette plants, shrubs…
LatinaLista — Indigenous and rural people throughout the Americas have long been under constant threat of attack against their way of life since the days of the Spanish conquistadores. What used to be outright murder and enslavement has evolved…
LatinaLista — For the last 50 years, Colombia has yet to truly experience a time of total peace. Though the country’s government is currently in peace talks with FARC, the country’s largest and oldest rebel group, and plans on…
LatinaLista — As a developed nation, U.S. citizens are spared most of the atrocities people endure in countries being ravaged by civil war, unrestrained criminal violence and outright ethnic attacks. A popular tool of these types of conflicts is…
By Juan Carlos Rocha Infosurhoy.com SAN AUGUSTÍN, Colombia – About 1,000 years ago, among the rugged and lush mountains where Colombia’s major rivers were born, a culture whose name remains unknown sculpted hundreds of stone monuments. These sculptures were…
By Hannah Mead Colombia Reports Medellin is due to host a three-day jazz festival featuring US and Colombian university jazz orchestras for the fourth year running. The University Jazz Festival, coordinated by language / culture institute Colombo Americano and…
By Adriaan Alsema Colombia Reports According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory in the city of Manizales — only miles away from the volcano, the volcano caused a minor M3.1 earthquake early Monday morning One the day of May…
By Manuel Vigo Peru This Week This week the governments of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia agreed to collaborate on the implementation of a new joint smart visa system, El Comercio reported. The agreement was signed at the World Economic…
By Johnny Crisp Colombia Reports The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday ratified its 2012 decision to remove Colombia from its human rights “black list.” This is the first time in over a decade that Colombia has not…
By Hannah Mead Colombia Reports For Colombia’s predominantly Catholic population, the Holy Week is the most important celebration of the year and many processions and religious ceremonies take place all over the country. While some of us associate this…
LatinaLista — His name is Jago Cooper but to viewers of the BBC he’s a modern-day Indiana Jones. Dr. Cooper hosts the BBC series Lost Kingdoms of South America. An English archaeologist specialising in South America and the Caribbean,…
