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Why Colombia needs Ley 30 reform
October 26, 2011
My throat was burning, really burning. I stopped on the hill in Bogota’s Macarena village; startled at how tonsilitis can creep up on you so fast. And then I realised. I’d swallowed a mouthful of tear gas. Rioting students at the university at the top of the hill were once again taking a pounding from […]
So you want to be romantic in Bogotá?
October 24, 2011
Romance. It’s an age-old argument; a classic battle of the sexes. Who craves it more – men or women? And, like a good red wine or right wing politics, is it something that appeals to us more as we age? Perhaps it’s the abundance of reasonably priced red roses or just the flamboyant Latin flattery […]
A labour of love?
October 23, 2011
“You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” Janet Jackson once wisely proclaimed. I like to think she was talking about human rights. You know, that inconvenient old concept, enshrined in dozens of European and British laws, which apparently plenty of politicians in my country want to scrap and certainly millions of people in […]
October 29, 2011
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