La Perseverancia

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The Bogotá curse

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Friday the 13th. Considering all that’s happened since, some superstitious types — not me, I hasten to add — might deem it quite portentous that this was the date of the initial, tentative encounter...

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Home is where the barrio is

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Before my adult days, I remember being rather puzzled about my father’s strong desire to get back to his local haunt(s) whenever we’d be out and about. In fact, even when I started my own...

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The accidental gomelo

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@wwaycorrigan «You’re a posh boy now, a gomelo.» So go the jibes from my old barrio buddies now that I find myself living in a swankier part of Bogotá (gomelo, for the uninitiated, is the Colombian word for what you might call preppy types). Yes, it’s true, my move a few kilometres south of my […]

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Leaving behind the Bogotá standard

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
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@wwaycorrigan After almost seven years of having Bogotá as the base, the greatest ‘achievement’ — let’s not get caught up in the semantics here — has been my assimilation to the working-class Bogotá barrio life. While many locals with aspirations to...

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Introducing (our) Colombia

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
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@radiobrendan We all, those of us with links to the place at least, have our own views about Colombia and what it represents. There are, obviously enough, many ways to look at it. Nonetheless, however you view it, do remember that it is ‘Colombia’ not...

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Keeping your potential enemies close

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
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@radiobrendan It’s nice to feel part of a community. Indeed, for the most part we’re social beings, thus to associate with a group is usually good for the body and soul. The majority of us are born into communities, some of which are more tightly knit than others. But...

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Appreciating the gutter

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@radiobrendan The first step in solving a problem, so it is said, is realising you have one. It pretty much stands to reason really. You’ve got to know what you’re trying to fix before you begin to fix it. Yet, for some things, what one person sees as a problem, or at least feels it […]

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