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Between the Andes and the Amazon jungle, in a rebel stronghold called “the red zone,” French journalist Romeo Langlois has become ensnared in Latin America’s oldest armed conflict. Everyone in this municipality has heard of Langlois and how he was captured by Colombia’s leftist FARC guerrillas April 28 during a firefight that broke out while he was on a reporting assignment with [...]
Colombia’s military on Wednesday halted operations in the southern part of the country where a French journalist was taken hostage at the weekend by leftist rebels, a general said. Romeo Langlois, a 35-year-old reporter for global television network France 24, went missing after a firefight Saturday between security forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia(FARC) [...]
This weekend Colombians will join in celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. Starting Saturday May 5, seven cinemas around Colombia will screen the 2011 version of the film, directed by Nick Morris and Laurence Connor. The show will screen in Colombia’s three largest cities; Bogota (Andean Multiplex, [...]
Bogota’s Museum of Regional Colombian Costumes shows off the remarkable diversity and history of Colombian fashion, including an indigenous marriage purse supposedly designed to hold an unusual gift. Situated on one of Bogota’s most historic streets, the costumes museum is suitably housed in the former residence of Manuelita Saenz — one time mistress of Simon Bolivar [...]
Situated in a renovated colonial house in the heart of Bogota’s historical center, the Botero Museum offers its visitors an art collection of rare quality. The museum was opened in the Candelaria in 2000 after Colombia’s most famous artist Fernando Botero donated 208 works, 123 of his own and 85 by international artists, to the Bank of the Republic’s [...]
Popayan’s Museum of Natural History is not the most visually impressive attraction in the city, but it is a must-see for nature and animal lovers who want to learn about Colombia’s immense animal diversity. Museum Director Maria del Pilar Rivas has worked to make the museum an important center of environmental education in the region [...]
A wildlife-themed adventure park in central Colombia is planning to build the two largest statues of Jesus in the world by Easter 2013, local media reported Tuesday. The entire project at Huila Africa, a safari-themed extreme sports and recreation center in the department of Huila, will consist of a crucifix-shaped church that will accomodate 500 people, an 80-meter [...]
Colombia’s coffee region, known as the Coffee-Growers Axis or Coffee Triangle, will now be called the Coffee Cultural Landscape. According to Vice Minister of Tourism Oscar Rueda the name-change is a nod to the region being added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site last June.“It’s a name that would be stupid to not use, why [...]
Medellin plans to make the city’s already impressive mass transit system even more accessible by adding new routes and extending service into the south, reported Radio Caracol Wednesday. Officials have announced that by the end of April, bus routes linking more than 30 Metro stations with different parts of the city will be introduced and various [...]
Colombian troops killed at least 35 suspected Marxist rebelsand captured four in an army offensive in the east-central department of Meta, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. Santos made the announcement in a meeting of his security council in Villavicencio, 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of Bogota, less than a week after troops killed 33 rebels in a [...]