La más reciente tragedia registrada es la del ingeniero Camilo Restrepo. Este diario informó el pasado domingo 15 de mayo que “Desde octubre de 2021 se han reportado 542 casos de intoxicación. En Bogotá los casos se duplicaron”. En las últimas semanas se han multiplicado(...)
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Por: Daniel Fernando Mejía Lozano El Festival de Cine de Cartagena tuvo la presentación de 154 películas de 38 países, contó con la invitada especial Rossy de Palma chica Almodóvar y realizó un sentido homenaje a Pier Paolo Pasolini y François Truffaut. En los distintos(...)
@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(...)
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@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.(...)
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Análisis publicitario sobre la importancia de respetar el idioma español y de no destruirlo con tecnicismos y anglicismos.
@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(...)
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@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(...)
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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(...)
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