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Supporting the national sweet industry in Velez

May 10th 2014
Well, not many goings-on around here for the moment, just revising and editing my novel. But in the meantime, I had the chance to visit a quiet destination; located in Santander, at only 231 km from Bucaramanga -around 4h20 mins by bus-, Velez, whose name dates from the Spanish conquest, is a village renowned for its delicious sweets, made ​​with guava pulp and wrapped in banana leaves, as wel ... read more
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Colombian Flag 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
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