By Jorge Gil Angel Bogota, Jun 7 (EFE).- Having sold more than 380 of her paintings over the past two-and-a-half years, life has changed for Colombian attorney Maria Esther Panesso, who rediscovered her artistic talents during the pandemic and on July 7 at the Beka Museum at New York’s Rockefeller Center will hold an exposition …
By Jorge Gil Angel Buena Vista, Colombia, Dec 7 (EFE).- The Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, a swampy marsh near Colombia’s Caribbean coast, occupies a special place in the heart of famed recording artist Carlos Vives, who is now repaying a debt of gratitude to the people who live there with a school project benefiting …
By Jorge Gil Angel Bogota, Nov 15 (EFE).- Colombia’s pharmaceutical industry grew 84.2 percent between 2010 and the end of 2019, but it remains tiny in global terms and accounts for just 0.05 percent of all exports in that sector worldwide. To change that reality, the country’s two main business associations in that industry are …
By Jorge Gil Angel Bogota/Caracas, Sep 22 (EFE) – The full reopening of the border with Colombia is welcome news for the nearly 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants now living in that neighboring country, many of whom have been granted temporary protective status and now will be better able to maintain ties with their homeland. Even …
By Jorge Gil Angel Bogota, Sep 1 (EFE).- Without doors or windows, its walls covered with graffiti, the Venezuelan Consulate in the Colombian capital is in ruins, and though the two neighbors have renewed diplomatic relations, the process of normalization has a long road to travel. The vandalized structure with a trash-strewn lawn sticks out …