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Background: 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 by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the government. An anti-insurgent army of paramilitaries has grown to several thousand strong in recent years, challenging the insurgents for control of territory and the drug trade, and also the government's ability to exert its dominion over rural areas. While Bogota steps up efforts to reassert government control throughout the country, neighboring countries worry about the violence spilling over their borders.

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By pink mona
January 13th 2006

about Collegio Bilingue-my working place

South America » Colombia » Santa Marta

Hi everybody, how are you doing? Iºm fine, discovering Santa Marta and Colombian culture in leaps and bounds....Iºm still very excited about everything happening to me so I wonºt bore you again with that.... :PPP the school where I work is said to be the top school in Santa Marta, though it isnºt too big...I mean compering it to the one where I worked before, in Turkey, but anyway my work here is totally different. I work with kids and kids only and it ainºt no picnic, let me tell u that.... I have 26 kids in a pre- school [View Full Entry]

By Salvador
January 5th 2006

Pela Panamericana.

South America » Colombia » Bogota

Villa de Leiva

...um aparte Para viajar, escrevo! Hoje resolvi escrever... escrever sobre uma viagem... escrever sobre uma minha viagem! Desde que saí de Portugal vivi inúmeras experiências. Vi e vivi muita coisa, muita coisa que nunca vou escrever porque não faria qualquer sentido. Agora, passado tanto tempo, quando escrevo, escrevo para recordar momentos que passei e sobre os quais nunca vou escrever pela razão supracitada. Escrevo também para partilhar com quem dá uma vista de olhos ao que escrevo. Faz-me sentir bem. Não deixa que me sinta sempre sozinho. Há mais de um ano que não f [View Full Entry]

By Troy
January 5th 2006

Faliz Año

South America » Colombia

Merry Christmas

Sorry for the hasteness of this posting. Even on an extensive holiday like this you can find laziness over the christmas holidays. In my last entry I was leaving the Pacific coast en route to Medellin. The 14 hour bus ride came and went with no problems and I found myself in the large bustling metropoolis of Medellin. Medellin is famous for a few things. Primarily it was the home of the large cartel of Pablo Escobar. Escobar was a drug Baron in the 80´s that ruled the city and much of Columbia. He was eventually gunned down by police [View Full Entry]

By Ursulita
January 3rd 2006

PASTO, Get dirty at "Carneval de Blancos y Negros"

South America » Colombia » Cali

Festival de Blancos y Negros
Crazy event in the south of Colombia in the first week of January! It is called "the white & black ones"

Carnival?? no words! crazy crazy crazy!!! you become a child again!! [View Full Entry]

By Salvador
January 3rd 2006

Tunja

South America » Colombia » Tunja

Almacen Portugal
Mesmo em frente ao Hotel Saboy. Soube pelo actual dono que a anterior proprietária gostava muito de Portugal. Pouco romântico.

Tunja Quem é que nunca quis ir a Tunja? Quem é que nunca se viu desembarcar, no terminal de Tunja e aventurar-se pela capital do Boyacá? Eu, pessoalmente, nunca tinha ouvido falar, mas ficava a caminho de Bogotá e parecia um atractivo porto de abrigo em direcção ao sul. A viagem entre San Gil e Tunja foi, uma vez mais na minha vida, um momento agradável. Lá fora uma paisagem dramática, selva, picos cortados pelas nuvens, a estrada a serpentear a beira de vales, bananeiros, bananas, e as pessoas que apanham as bananas, bicicletas carregadas de bananas, carrinhos de mão escondidos [View Full Entry]

By Ursulita
January 1st 2006

The white town of Popayan, below the Parque nacional de Purace

South America » Colombia » Cali

Iglesa

Popayan a beautiful colonial town, 2hs sout of Cali, with white washed houses can be a bit "tranquilo". But at night when they turn on the lights the magic comes into the town. Not many people know that only 2 hs from Popayan, there is a beautiful national park, caled Purace, with its hot springs and cascades. Colombia definitely has a lot of water resources. Enjoy the pictures [View Full Entry]

By The Visitor
January 1st 2006

Cartagena, Colombia

South America » Colombia » Cartagena

Panorama

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By Ursulita
December 31st 2005

Year 2006

South America » Colombia » Cali

HNY 2006
My happy happy face!

Not with you but thinking about you! Think about all great things that happened to you in 2005 with a smile on your face and in year 2006 finnaly start doing and enjoing lithe simple things that are fulfill our everyday lifes. World can be small if only your desire is stong enough desire is just an desire if you dont make a first step. Wish you all the best!! And remember to enjoy every single minute of your life, cause life is too short and too beautiful to waste it. to all you great, energetic, people I met in my [View Full Entry]

By silychris
December 27th 2005

very few photos of our very short time in

South America » Colombia » Bogota

A Colombian bus decorated
for Christmas

Colombia. Colombia is a terrific country. The people are open, the food is great, the music gets you in the hips. It is just that we had to cross there very quickly to get to Ecuador in time for new year. If you want, you can cross this vast magical country (let´s but aside the dubious politics for a moment) on a bus in three days. Not recommeded. We did not, therefore, get a chance to see or do much. But we did spend the night in Bucaramanga in a hotel, highly rated by the Lonely Planet, which had holes in [View Full Entry]

By Ursulita
December 24th 2005

Salsa fever! Feria de SALSA in Cali! 25-28.12. Si o no parce?

South America » Colombia » Cali

Mamcitas ricas
So the opening of feria de salsa starts with "Cabalgata" where 6000 horses do a promenade. It is also the best time for all the ladies to show them. Really hot ones!

Cali is the capital od Salsa!!!! If you love to dance salsa, rum, aguardiente, fiestas, fiestas and to see the best looking woman & man in Colombia ! You should not miss feria de Cali!!! It was una locura!!!!!! Ursula [View Full Entry]

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