Welcome to The Colombia Blog Herald, a new experiment I’m willing to take since now. I’ll try to feature some news and blog posts from Colombia, a war-torn, passionate and sometimes forgotten beautiful country in South America. Let’s start:
Undoubtedly, this post from The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins is going to be the talk of the Colombian media this weekend, as j. claims in his well known blog. Jenkins says:
Beset by media reports of warlordism, kidnapping and narco crime, they seemed trapped in the image stakes somewhere between Somalia and Afghanistan. There is only one guide to Colombia in my bookshop (from the sainted Lonely Planet) against a dozen to neighbouring Costa Rica and Brazil. But then how to sell a country whose most famous son, Gabriel García Márquez, depicts its political default mode as massacre? Do you boast that Colombians kidnap better, and twin Medellín with Moss Side, or plead: why visit Kabul when you can visit Cali?
