Perfecting the present

We take a look at a perfectly good, yet underused tense... One of the tenses that is often ignored by Spanish speakers using English is the...

Rolos, Paisas: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Dutchman, Adriaan Alsema, discovers Bogota isn’t so bad after all   Bogota and I have long had a difficult relationship. My first...

FARC Needs To Face Reality For Peace To Be Possible

Mark Kennedy responds to Tanja Nijmeijer’s Colombia Reports article   In an op-ed piece that ran in Colombia Reports on July 22,...

Banking On It

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo: Michiel Wolvers[/caption] An innovative mobile application could give a financial...

World News Round Up

AFRICA Liberia: The country has suspended all football activities in an effort to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Cameroon: Boko Haram...

Experts Can’t Reach Wreckage

Dutch and Australian experts forced to delay a planned visit to the site of the crash of flight MH17 for the third day as fighting between...

Israel-Gaza Conflict: 1,200 Dead

[caption id="attachment_741" align="alignright" width="300"] Families watching rockets fall over Gaza City in this undated photo. More than 1,200...

Don’t stop the party

Bogota’s new law permitting bars to stay open until 5am sounds like every clubber’s dream, but is it a recipe for disaster? [caption...

Happy Birthday La Republica!

Colombia celebrates 204 years of Independence in full military fashion  Thousands of police, soldiers and other military personnel were out in...

Fear and Loathing in Cabo

[caption id="attachment_3426" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Not an appealing place to brake down Photo: Charlotte Ryan[/caption] Charlotte Ryan...