View from the kitchen balcony

A Different Type of Living

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August 11th 2009
Although I haven't written about it yet, now is probably a good time to mention how our mornings start in Medellin. To do that I have to first talk about class. Before this trip I could tell you a lot of things about Colombians, about how they lived, what they ate, what they like to do. What I couldn't tell you, because I didn't know, was that there is a fairly obvious class system in this ... read more

South America » Colombia » Medellin

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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