Political Branding in Cities: The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogota, Naples, and Chicago (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here we are in the city that I probably have the most concern about my personal security that we have yet to visit. We have about 6 days in Bogota to start with for the sole purpose of getting our Brazilian Visa for one of the final parts of our journey. So we arrive late Sunday night as there are no flights that arrive during the day from Mexico and go about collecting our luggage and passin
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Bogota - Authorities confiscated counterfeit US bank notes totalling more than 2 million dollars in two operations in the city of Medellin, the Colombian Judicial Police said on the weekend. Agents seized more than 1 million counterfeit dollars sent ...
Unknowing (Free subscription) | yesterday
I don’t know what they pay to hear Lior Shambadal and the Berlin Philharmonic—his other gig, but I paid $5 to hear him and the Filarmonica de Bogota, and it was good. We have a good concert hall, and I think the cheapest seats have really good sound, better than the ones last time which [...]
inca kola news (Free subscription) | yesterday
FACT: There is a presidential election coming soon in Colombia. BOGOTA — Colombia warned its forces were on "maximum alert" and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighboring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country's national security council in Arauca, a city on the eastern border with...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Economist and administrator Enrique Penalosa spoke to DNA about buses, bicycles and how Mumbai can pull a Bogota.
The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Should we be worried about this? Colombia warned its forces were on "maximum alert" and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighboring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country's national security council in Arauca, a city on the eastern border with Venezuela. He said President Alvaro Uribe and...
TangoSpam:La Vida Con Deby (Free subscription) | yesterday
I decide to leave Bogota without a plan. My hosts Myriam and Andres are skeptical. They prefer I wait and book a tour. I do not want to. Monday was a holiday and it made a minor mess of my...
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Salvador, Brazil — Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday joined visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Bogota, Colombia — Six people, including two children, were killed when suspected Colombian FARC guerrillas stopped and set fire to a bus traveling in the south...
Unknowing (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today the irregular class schedule was such we went our way downtown: to borrow books, to sign a paper, to see about a museum, to wander in the pleasant weather. It was a nice day today in Bogota, and warm. Now I have The Way of All Flesh to read, having read something awfully interesting about [...]
3wan.net (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[cisco] Cisco announced today the results of the Cisco Broadband Barometer, which reported a 14 percent growth in broadband connections in Colombia from January to June 2009. According to the study, 254,000 broadband connections were added during the first half of the year, when the country had reached 2,066,742 connections and a 4.65 percent penetration. As shown by the barometer, growth was reported...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Since their systemic targeting of producer nations through militarized methods of eradication, government officials in Washington have regularly brandished bogus data when concerning the effectivoeness and validity of the US's so-called 'war on drugs'. Dating back to the 1980s, Colombia became a figurative and literal battleground in this war, as the world's principal cultivator of coca. As liberalized...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country's aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border pedestrian bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Many favorite Park Slope restaurants are on the list released by the State Department of Labor Department yesterday. 25 Brooklyn restaurants owe at least $910,000 in unpaid wages to more than 200 workers. In Park Slope, state inspectors found that workers make as little as $2.75 an hour way below state minimum wage of $7.25. They found that delivery workers earn $210 to $275 a week for 60 to 70 hours...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tensions raised between two countries as troops dynamite rural walkways Venezuela claims are used by smugglers and militia Venezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the Andean neighbours. Soldiers destroyed the walkways because they were being used by illegal militia and drug traffickers, said Eusebio Aguero, an...
Google LatLong (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This past Saturday, we launched the first ever mapping competition in Latin America during a live session on Map Maker at the Campus Party Mexico 2009 . The competition officially kicked off at the event in Mexico city, where tech enthusiasts from all over the country got to know first about the Map Maker competition. Participating in the Campus Party allowed us to enjoy not only a warm welcoming from...
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