Richard McColl's Blog, page 15
July 26, 2015
Shoe Shiners in Lourdes Park
You can stroll through the paved side of Lourdes Park where the iconic church faces the Carrera 13 and with …
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July 7, 2015
Sunday Morning Portrait of Bogota’s Avenida Caracas
Days of the week don’t carry any significance before 7am on the Avenida Caracas. Steel shutters are firmly down, padlocks …
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July 4, 2015
The Colombian Government will walk away from the Negotiating table
An Open Letter to the FARC in Havana, Cuba In your haste and desire to push for a bilateral ceasefire, …
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June 23, 2015
Don’t Hold Your Breath
So, news was leaked via La F.M. radio station this morning informing listeners of a mass legal process to be …
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June 17, 2015
El Negro Comanche: Bogota’s Ñero from Cali
The first I heard of Comanche was when I passed the Camara de Comercio building in Chapinero and saw a …
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June 14, 2015
A True Colombia Moment: Gachalá
All too often my writing becomes a diatribe against injustices or perceived wrongs in Colombia from my point of view, …
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June 6, 2015
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Teeth
I may not smile frequently, but when I do there’s an exhibition of gnashers that, were they slightly longer, more …
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June 3, 2015
The Man behind “The Mick” in Marx Rand
Do you remember “The Mick?” Or better yet, Christopher Kavanagh? No? What about the larger than life central character from …
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April 28, 2015
“Was Gabo an Irishman?” Book Signing May 1, FILBo 2015
In Bogotá, a Spanish humanitarian worker attends a funeral without a body, as a storm of yellow butterflies swirls outside. …
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April 21, 2015
Feeling it in Colombia: Doing Without
Of course right at this very moment, I am to be found in a process of and semi-permanent state of …
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