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August 13, 2020
Required Reading for Colombia: a totally subjective and incomplete list
Required Reading for Colombia: a totally subjective and incomplete list
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August 10, 2020
Colombia’s Covid-19 Patient 1
Despite having suffered Covid-19 at the very end of February 2020, I was not Colombia’s Covid-19 Patient 1
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July 26, 2020
Escape to Mompós
And so, we made our escape to Mompós, it was the right thing to do. Check back in a month.
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May 26, 2020
Crossing the Darien Gap
In what is a three-part series on the Colombia Calling podcast, we'll be exploring the realities - warts and all - of crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama
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March 30, 2020
Bogotá under Quarantine
An uncharacteristic calm hangs over the empty streets of a Bogotá under quarantine.
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March 21, 2020
A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 4)
A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 4)
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March 6, 2020
A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 3)
More headaches for Colombia's President Duque as yet another tough week for his government comes to a close.
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February 22, 2020
A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 2)
I had hoped that the second instalment of this series was not going to be so hot on the heels of the first (see Part 1, Feb 13) but, alas, President Ivan Duque cannot catch a break at all and at each turn appears smote as if with a deadly sabre of calamity. Our snake-bitten, Read more about A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 2)[…]
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February 13, 2020
A week in the life of Ivan Duque, President of Colombia (part 1)
A week in the life of President Ivan Duque.
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January 13, 2020
The Colombia Calling Patreon Campaign
It took me around six months to launch the Colombia Calling Patreon campaign. This wasn’t, as you might expect, due to a complete and utter dedication to procrastination, but, I started to feel that it was going to be a shout out into the ether with little or no response. I felt that if it Read more about The Colombia Calling Patreon Campaign[…]
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