@wwaycorrigan Considering I’ve had seventeen — that’s not including extended trips back to Ireland — house moves in Bogotá since I started living and working here in early 2012, one would think that I’ve become a master of the art of decluttering. OK, as a(...)
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] One trend I’ve noticed in Colombia’s low-lying lands — lower than Bogotá that is — is that even rather small towns have a more sinister side to them compared to their loftier equivalents. I refer(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Being alone in Colombia is such a waste.’ That was the reaction of one Facebook user to my recent post, ‘Set on singlehood‘. What particularly caught my attention was the inclusion of(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] So the last bastion of conservatism and right-wing populism in Latin America has fallen. Colombia has chosen a leftist president for the first time in its history. The rains that fell incessantly on the capital(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A few weeks back, on one of my pueblo escapes from Bogotá — to La Paz, Santander, precisely speaking — I had an interesting conversation with a man about Colombia’s less well-off. He was of the opinion(...)
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La historia ‘Soy hijo de un policía’ publicada en el en la página digital del diario EL TIEMPO, el 11 de mayo del 2021, en medio de la protesta social, fue galardonada con el premio de periodismo Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, que concede el Concejo de Bogotá en la(...)
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] It used to surprise me somewhat how even the most insignificant and sleepy of Colombian towns had at least one hotel to host the occasional passer-by. I’d often wonder how the owners made money from the(...)
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Nací hace casi 48 años en el barrio Modelo de Bogotá, en el antiguo hospital infantil Lorencita Villegas de Santos; mis padres en ese entonces vivían en arriendo en una humilde casa en el barrio Quiroga, al sur de Bogotá. Luego, por el trabajo de mi papá nos trasladamos(...)
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In an email newsletter earlier this year from the conservative Colombian journalist, Ricardo Galán, in customary reproachful fashion, he berated Bogotá’s cyclists for daring to use roads, as he put it,(...)
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Análisis de la importancia de preservar a la Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá (ETB) por pertenecer a un sector estratégico de la economía.
