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	<description>News and issues from Colombia, a passionate South American country, by Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</description>
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		<title>The Colombia Herald will remain on hiatus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to several commitments at my job and new assignments as part of the brand new equinoXio english edition, I&#8217;m afraid this blog will continue on hiatus by now. Next week I&#8217;ll return to Global Voices, with a post on the reactions after 4 February&#8217;s march against FARC. Thank you.
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		<title>The biggest hail storm ever recorded in Bogotá</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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Photo by edahurtado/Flickr

Photo by lilianazombie/Flickr
On Saturday, a lot of rain and hail fell all over Bogotá, Colombia&#8217;s capital city. According to IDEAM, Colombia&#8217;s meteorological institute, the blame goes to La Niña, which will cause even more rain until January 2008. Most of the city became white around 3 p.m. Downtown, the water level, which reached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Colombia, even dogs are kidnapped (and freed) [video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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Colombia is the world&#8217;s kidnapping capital. Right now, more than 3,000 remain in captivity, most of them by FARC guerrillas. The so-called &#8220;humanitarian swap&#8221;, which is being pushed by senator Piedad Córdoba (Colombian Liberal Party) with Hugo Chávez, would only free around 50 people, including former presidential candidate and French citizen Íngrid Betancourt and three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False quake alarm in Bogotá [video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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Ignorance. That&#8217;s the word which would summarize what happened on Tuesday 28 August in Bogotá. After Peru&#8217;s earthquake, and as every time a quake happens near Colombia, Bogotans remember, again, they should be prepared for this kind of disasters, but they (we) don&#8217;t. Around noon, someone who had nothing best to do, called several companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxi drivers block Bogotá streets in protest [video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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Last Friday (27 July), Bogotá woke up with its main avenues blocked. The powerful taxi drivers&#8217; group did it in protest because 8 of them have been murdered this year, the latest one, Mario Orlando Velásquez, 39, on Thursday night. The above 17-minutes Caracol TV report, broadcast at Friday noon (and co-presented by lovely Silvia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian senators scorn victims of guerrilla and paramilitary violence [video]</title>
		<link>http://colombiaherald.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/colombian-senators-scorn-victims-of-guerrilla-and-paramilitary-violence-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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The above Caracol TV news report compares the way Colombian Senate treated pro-Cuban ELN leader Francisco Galán and paramilitary leaders Salvatore Mancuso, Ramón Isaza, and Iván Duque alias Ernesto Báez three years ago, with its scorn and indifference towards 30 victims of the violence by these groups, FARC, and some members of the Colombian Army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombians protest against kidnappings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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After the murder of 11 deputies by FARC guerrillas, Colombians decided to go to the streets and yell &#8220;No More Kidnappings&#8220;. It started as a citizen initiative, but soon the democratic security government, big companies and mainstream media supported it and invited people to join. The huge demonstration took place on Thursday 5 July at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paramilitary leader&#8217;s &#8220;self-interview&#8221; causes outrage</title>
		<link>http://colombiaherald.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/paramilitary-leaders-self-interview-causes-outrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Paid advertising featuring an interview with paramilitary chief Macaco, published on El Espectador (clic the picture to see the full page&#8230; I apologize for the bad quality of the picture)
On Saturday, weekly newspaper El Espectador published on his page 16A a &#8220;paid advertising&#8221; featuring an interview with Carlos Mario Jiménez Naranjo, also known as Javier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian television nostalgia [videos]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 03:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First, I must apologize for the lack of updates on this blog. I&#8217;ve been quite busy at work, but I&#8217;m back. I&#8217;ll bring you a lot of what Colombian blogosphere said about paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso&#8217;s deposition last week in a post for Global Voices Online on Thursday.
So, I want you to relax and enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Fernando Vallejo nationality issue; VP Santos controversial TV interview</title>
		<link>http://colombiaherald.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/more-on-fernando-vallejo-nationality-issue-vp-santos-controversial-tv-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 03:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I picked up some of the Colombian blogosphere reactions to controversial writer Fernando Vallejo&#8217;s renounce to Colombian nationality. Today appeared two more posts about it which are quite worthy. The first one is from DieGoth, a right-winger writing on centre-left digital magazine equinoXio:
If I spoke about a country filled with:

Murderer policemen
Murderer soldiers
Murderer drug dealers
Corrupt, [...]]]></description>
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