The Cloud

El Embrujo, Tinto Cardemomo, and Ay Mami

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June 18th 2008
Greetings! Thank you so much to those of you who have written messages in response to my last entry, they were very funny, and it was great to hear from some of you! Keeping with the style of the first entry, there is a story to go along with each word/phrase in the title of this entry. Thus, we commence. El Embrujo means something along the lines of The Enchantment in English and was th ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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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