My Spanish speaking and reading abilities may be extremely limited, but it didn't take much to see that the graphical creations from the Colombian company, Trinidad Design , are extremely, extremely street-cool. From what little I could gather & translate, the line was formed in early 2007 and is based in Bogota, Colombia. The ' underground' imagery and 'for the people' directive behind the T-Shirts & Vests seem to draw from both the Colombian heritage/socialism/lifestyle, and from the... Read Full Story
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated another Colombian money exchange house for acting on behalf of and materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a narco-terrorist group also known as the FARC. This is OFAC's fourth action against the FARC in the past six months. Previous actions are mentioned in Targeting the FARC Terrorist Financial Network .
Designating the Mercurio... Read Full Story
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Presumed leftist rebels attacked a small police convoy in Colombia's turbulent northeast on Friday with explosives and automatic weapons, killing eight police officers and wounding one.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=ArpRFht2CjiIV40K9BwXobRn.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMTFqaXBkBHNlYwNwcnZkbGluaw--/*http://www.reuters.com Read Full Story
BOGOTA, Colombia – A poverty-stricken Colombian couple have named their Inauguration Day newborn Barack Obama.
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Silvia Fajardo tells Colombian television she hopes her mixed-race son will be as "humble" as the new president and "do something productive in the future." Hospital director Edwin Pena says the 6.2-pound (2.8-kilogram), 18-inch (45-centimeter) newborn will receive free diapers... Read Full Story
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors Wednesday in a daring helicopter rescue so successful that not a single shot was fired.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=ArpRFht2CjiIV40K9BwXobRn.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMTFqaXBkBHNlYwNwcnZkbGluaw--/*http://www.reuters.com Read Full Story
Bulletproof Fashion in Colombia
Imagine a
store policy that requires all its employees to be shot. This is exactly what Miguel Caballero (site in Spanish) has
established in Colombia at his bulletproof, high-end
fashion store. His enterprise represents someone who was able to make the best out of a bad situation. He saw an opportunity in the area of personal
safety in his country and in 1992 he claims he developed his first leather
jacket with $10. The idea of fashion
that does not... Read Full Story
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration spent more than $123,000 to charter a private jet to fly to Bogota, Colombia, last fall instead of taking one of the agency's 106 planes.... Tagged as: enforcement, administration, charter, private, bogota, colombia, agency Read Full Story
BOGOTA, 26 November 2008 - Edinson Aranguren is a gay AIDS activist who works for the Colombian League for the Fight Against AIDS in Bogota, Colombia's capital. Read Full Story
So, President Bush is on his way to Colombia right now. We actually just got back from a little trip to Bogota ourselves, and you know what? It really drove home the fundamental break in how the rest of the... Read Full Story
Today in Balls Deep, we get a little lesson in tough love from the Colombian authorities, as dished out to the country’s homeless on a nightly basis. That’ll learn ’em for living in shit and fear. In VBS Meets, Michel... Read Full Story
