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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... [read more]
Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... [read more] Blog: AMAZON RIVER
Date: July 31st 2007
Date: July 31st 2007
River Trip
From Puerta Masusa, a port near Iquitos, river boats leave each evening down the Amazon River. I got a motor-taxi to take me to Puerto Masusa . Half way there the ¨taxi¨sputtered its last drop of gas but as if the driver had planned it, the taxi coasted into the one and only gas station between town and port. He got 30 cents worth. My fare was 65 cents. I was the o ... read more
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