Stories about Colombia from February, 2006
Colombia, Mexico: Language, Ethnicity, and Idenity
John Guzman pens his thoughts on language and nationality, commenting that not every Latino in the United States speaks “Mexican.”
Colombia: “Manual eradication in parks: set up to fail?”
Adam Isacson explains that aerial fumigation has caused Colombian coca growers to plant their crop in Colombia's national parks and that new proposals call for extending the fumigation to the parks or recruiting manual eradicators to dig the plant up.
Colombia: Hernán Giraldo
Adam Isacson tells the story of Hernán Giraldo, a drug-trafficking paramilitary leader, who will be released from prison in six and a half years as a beneficiary of the “Justice and Peace Law.”
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil: Everyone Loves Condoms
Risa writes about “An Interesting Proposal” made by the mayor of the Colombian town, Tulua which would “require all the residents over 14 to carry a condom with them at all times. If someone is stopped and doesn't have a condom they will be required to pay 408 pesos ($108).”...
Colombia: Football Fans Buried in Their Colors
Marcelo MacKinnon writes on new coffins in Colombia “adorned with the colors and insignias of [the deceased's] favorite football club.”
