Culture. Arts & News

Shakira Has Her Own Barbie doll;

Colombian pop sensation Shakira inspired a Barbie fanatic from her home country to design a special 'She Wolf' outfit for the plastic doll.


The Bogota Book Fair;

The Bogota book fair is the biggest in Latin America and draws thousands of thousands of literature lovers each year. Aside it being the perfect place to look for books; it's the perfect place to see people.

Bogota's Comparsas Parade: colourful, despite the rain;

Jugglers and jesters dressed in fluorescent greens and reds mixed and mingled with performance artists representing of death and misery. Many of the groups involved in the parade kept their contributions to the spectacle simple and inexpensive, but used the materials they had in infinitely diverse, creative ways.

The referendum’s long via crucis;

Zombies are back. Long after Uribe's 2010 re-election had been declared dead, it it close to being resurrected by the House and stands a chance of winning the race to be held on time. The most difficult task of the President will then be trying to get 7.1 million Colombians to show up at the ballot box.


Noelle Schonwald to play Betancourt in Operation Jaque movie ;
Colombian actress Noelle Schonwald will play former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt in the movie about 'Operation Jaque', the daring jungle rescue of Betancourt, three Americans and 11 others from the guerrillas.


Juanes' concert in Cuba gets competition

Cuban Americans plan to hold a 'Freedom in Cuba' concert in Miami on the same day Colombian singer Juanes will perform his controversial 'Peace Without Borders' show in Havana.


A year later, Ingrid Betancourt asks that world remember hostages
Bogota - Ingrid Bentancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who was rescued from leftist rebels exactly a year ago, asked Thursday that the world not forget the people who remain in captivity in the South American nation.
Betancourt was kidnapped by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in February 2002 and spent over six years in captivity before being rescued on July 2, 2008 by Operation Jaque, an undercover Colombia Army operation.