@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A Venezuelan friend once told me of a saying in her country: ‘The Colombian can never lose.’ This seems to have come, for the most part, from the days when Venezuela was the ostensibly richer, more...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] One has to admire an individual who realises that he/she has a personal problem and takes corrective action. As a species, we are often quick to see the faults of others yet are blind to our own shortcomings....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In just over a month, 29 May 2022 to be precise, Colombians go to the polls to elect their next president. Fico fights back There are two things that we can take as virtually certain at this stage. One is that...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A few years ago — in my more petulant days (they are behind me now, of course) — I shamefully caused a bit of commotion in a Bogotá nightclub. Tainted vision The casus belli? Well, none other than the...
Entrevista con un colombiano que reside en la ciudad Donetsk y quien relata la otra versión de la guerra de Ucrania.
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I do sometimes feel a bit torn after getaways to Colombian pueblos — pueblo pick-me-ups as I like to call them — due to my desire or at least perceived need to blog about them. It’s because, as...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Sitting unhidden in one of my barrio tiendas sipping on a litre of Poker beer, it dawned on me that less than a year ago such behaviour was officially prohibited and had been for the guts of 12 months. I’m...
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio, nacida en 1960, ha sido conocida como una política colombiana desde 1994, año en que realizó su primera campaña política y fue elegida como diputada de la Cámara de Representantes. Así mismo, también lanzó su propia campaña presidencial en el...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A long-standing friend made an interesting and, I think, somewhat accurate observation about me recently. He noted how I spend a lot of time fretting about casually meeting certain people to the extent that if I...
Por: Luis Carlos Leal A Cuando se habla de políticos es frecuente que la conversación se vea constantemente manchada por diferentes escándalos relacionados con la toma de decisiones y algunos mecanismos desarrollados para lograr la gobernabilidad del mandatario local o...
