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Colombia’s Festivals Promise Cultural Delights to Brighten the Post-Holiday Season
Christmas may be over, but Colombian festival season is just beginning. Don’t miss these three cultural celebrations!
Colombia: Is it the people of the chaos?
To outsiders and natives alike, Colombia can seem a disorganized chaos, but there is much to love amidst the noise.
Providencia: Colombia’s unspoiled island in a sea of tranquility
Resisting temptations of oil and unchecked tourism, Providencia is one of Colombia’s most unspoiled destinations.
Colombian orchids: Endangered beauty
Logging and climate change threaten the survival of one of Colombia’s greatest natural treasures – the orchid.
Barranquilla leads with our leading ladies
Shakira will judge The Voice and Sofia Vergara is the highest paid TV actress in the U.S. Colombia’s loveliest ladies are helping change the nation’s image.
Colombia’s women pilots risk all for the frontline
Colombia’s women pilots put their lives on the line flying dangerous missions with the National Police’s helicopter division.
Does Colombian cacao have a semisweet future?
Cacao, the raw ingredient in chocolate, stands poised to become Colombia’s next big export, especially if artisan beans continue to attract global consumers.
Angelika Helberger: A pioneer of aviation in Colombia
Angelika Helberger left post-war Germany for Colombia where she became the first female commercial pilot in the Americas.
Roberto López and Colombia’s lost Amazonian tribes
Robert Franco has spent years covering a remote corner of Colombia in search of uncontacted tribes and believes he has found “lost peoples” in the Río Puré.
For Colombia’s film industry, a time for Ciro Guerra
Riding the success of Los Viajes del Viento, director Ciro Guerra talks his life, love of film and vision for Colombian cinema.