By Jorge Gil Angel Saravena, Colombia, Feb 24 (EFE).- Broken glass, destroyed buildings and makeshift barricades line the streets in Colombia’s Saravena, for weeks an epicenter of a bloody fighting between rival guerilla groups. Tensions have been intensifying in the eastern Colombian rural area in the department of Arauca near the border with Venezuela, leaving …
By Jorge Gil Angel Cartagena, Colombia, Feb 3 (EFE).- Latin American countries need more transparency in their tax systems and public spending to accelerate the movement toward greater equality, French economist Thomas Piketty said in an interview with Efe. “We need to involve citizens. We need to have more transparency about both the tax system, …
By Jorge Gil Angel Pasto, Colombia, Jan 5 (EFE).- Artisanry is ingrained in the culture and identity of different neighborhoods of this southwestern Colombian city, creating a climate conducive to preserving a labor-intensive varnish technique of indigenous origin known as Barniz de Pasto. The practitioners of that technique use a resin known as Mopa-Mopa that …
By Jorge Gil Angel Mesetas, Colombia, Nov 22 (EFE).- Yaritza Paniagua, a former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel, was assigned five years ago to a commission tasked with searching for people who have gone missing during more than 50 years of internal armed conflict. Having spent 20 years as a guerrilla, she is …
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