A Tale Of Two Restaurants: Bistro el Bandido and Sant Just

Duncan Hall visits Bistro el Bandido and Sant Just   (more…)

Quirky Colombians

Malcolm Douglas looks at some very Colombian peculiarities   When you’ve lived here for long enough to get sucked into the daily grind,...

Dates For Your Diary…

GRIDLOK & PROLIX, October 3, Venue TBC Two internationally-renowned electronica DJs, joined by numerous special guests, arrive in Bogota to show...

Musicians On The Market

The Bogota Music Market (BOmm) kicks off for the third time on September 10, with more than 1,200 aspiring artists registered for the event on...

Petro Orders Investigation Into Son

NICHOLAS PETRO, the mayor of Bogota’s son, has been accused of involvement in “irregularities,” prompting his father to ask the Office of the...

Santos’ Strongman In The Chief Prosecutor’s Office

[caption id="attachment_205" align="alignleft" width="275"] Chief Prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre.[/caption] Columnist Adriaan Alsema points out that...

Ippon-ymous victory

Quick moves from Colombian Yuri Alvear win Judo World Championship title   Colombian judo fighter Yuri Alvear Orejuela has won her third...

World News Round-Up…

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN Mexico: Torture is rife in Mexico and is routinely used by authorities to extract confessions, according to a new...

Funny Foreigners

Marian Romero García ponders some of the eccentricities of expats [caption id="attachment_485" align="alignright" width="300"] Colombians like...

I Used To, But Not Anymore

Oliver Pritchard walks us through using the imperfect, past continuous and ‘used to’ tenses in English Writing stories and descriptions in...