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...Echeverri and bassist/producer Hector Buitrago, mixes punk, surf guitar and ska with folky Colombian styles such as vallenato, a bouncy, accordion-heavy genre. And unlike her Latin pop cohorts, Echeverri eschewed make-up and belly-baring tank tops in favor of piercings and tattoos. When the band hit the Bogota rock scene in 1991, the establishment barely knew what to make of them...
...television journalist in Gaza City, Palestine; Yaping Jiang, executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Takashi Oshima, a reporter, for The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; Altin Raxhimi, a producer-editor for Top Channel T.V., and correspondent for Transitions Online, in Tirana, Albania; and Alice Tatah, a producer/presenter for Cameroon Radio and Television in Yaounde...
Munera uses irony and symbolism to convey specific ideas to his viewer. In “Circus Tent,” another photograph taken in the slums of Bogota, a small, dilapidated tent that reads “Bienvenido al Circo” in faded red letters gapes open, revealing the humble iron bed frame that someone calls home. Munera’s portrait titled, “Destiny Stone” shows a bright-eyed boy peering through a hole in a boulder...
Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogota, Columbia will serve...
...early schooling, his sexual initiation and maybe a few too many of his schoolmates--Garcia Marquez sets them all down. Eventually he travels to Bogota to pursue studies in law. But it's too late. His passion for words overtakes him. So does the bloody history of his country. By the book's end, he is becoming the man whose gifts will subdue that history and turn its pain into even further magic...