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A life in Colombia
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Where there’s a lollipop… there’s hope…
There is only one thing that divides people more than poverty – and that’s talking about poverty. Take, for example, those people in Bogotá who sell products on buses. A pen salesman will sell you a pen, but most of his pens come packaged in his unverifiable sob story. Some of my friends – those […]
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 […]
April 26, 2012
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