–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– With the sounds coming out of the Monaco fitness room growing increasingly positive about the chances of Falcao featuring in Brazil 2014, it might seem tempting to assume that the sight of El Tigre in full flow, terrorizing opposition defences, is going to be a feature of this year’s […]
Tag: Famous Colombians
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– When I first pulled One Hundred Years of Solitude from the shelf in my local bookshop, aged 14, and quickly parted with the princely sum of eight pounds to take it home (mainly because I loved the sound of the author’s name and the cover-art,), I could never have […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel Garcia Marquez will forever be remembered as a man of letters; a literary icon almost without equal, and the originator of the Latin American literary ‘boom’ with whom he is synonymous. However, what many people may not know is that music was as much, if not more, of […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Colombia’s most iconic figure: a literary giant whose laid-back attitude and casual costeno charm have made him a hero to millions. He’s had a pretty colourful life as well, so here are See Colombia’s Top 5 favourite Gabo moments: 1. “Turn this car around!” The […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Yesterday probably the greatest living Colombian turned 87 years old – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (or Gabo to his friends). What a life it’s been: from the little town of Aracataca to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabo has retained his massive popularity in Colombia thanks to his easy costeno […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Well, and then 2014 happened. Two of the shiniest stars in the Latin music firmament both decided to release mega-albums within a fortnight of each other. Shakira and Juanes are no strangers to Grammies, Twitter followers, or massive hits, and, if early signs are anything to go by, Colombia […]
Moustaches are amazing. It’s just a scientific fact. Colombia has a long and venerable history of recognising this iron-clad fact, and, in honour of Movember (which, we should remember, is first and foremost a charity event), it’s time to look at some representatives of the mighty ‘tache in our beloved Colombia: the good, the bad, and […]
The biggest piece of graffiti on Bogota´s giant art gallery on 26th Street is of a weedy, bespectacled young man with a smart, somewhat ironic expression. Not really the profile of your traditional Colombian hero. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Your usual brand of hero – both here in Colombia and in the world […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Well, we done warned you plenty. We told you Colombia was going to be the place to be. Now it´s too late for you to be able to say (like we can – but, which still doesn´t make us hipsters, btw): ¨Oh yeah, going to Colombia? Ya – I did that […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Although everybody loves Colombia´s Caribbean coast (just check out last week´s gallery again if you yourself still don´t), sometimes I get the feeling that its inhabitants, generally referred to as Costeños, often get a raw deal. In particular, it sometimes appears that some residents of the two major Colombian cities, […]