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22 February 2012

Colombia: Impunity, a Documentary About the Victims of the Armed Conflict

Written by Cati Restrepo · Translated by Betsy Galbreath · Human Rights, Politics

In 2011, journalist Hollman Morris and filmmaker Juan José Lozano released the documentary Impunity, an audiovisual tour through the history of armed conflict in Colombia through the voices of victims of armed groups. Due to its theme, Impunity has generated all kinds of opinions, and reactions on the Internet are proof of that.

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16 February 2012

Colombia: Through the Eyes of Expat Bloggers

Written by Silvia Viñas · Travel, Citizen Media

Colombia's official travel website has called on some 30 foreigners to share their Colombian living and travel adventures to the world through blogging. The official site will launch on February 20, but some of the participants offer a glimpse of the project on their personal blogs.

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15 January 2012

Video Highlights: Activism, Freedom of Speech, Identity and Culture

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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3 January 2012

Latin America, 2011: A Year Marked by Social Movements

Written by Silvia Viñas · Education, Environment

Citizens across the world took to the streets in 2011, and Latin America was no exception. In this post we look at the social movements that marked 2011 in South and Central America and how protests, vigils, marches and occupations were covered and analyzed through citizen media.

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29 December 2011

Colombia: Salsa Song Criticizes Bus Rapid Transport System

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Development, Humor

A salsa song and video documents the suffering that travelling in the Transmilenio public transportation system of Bogota represents for its users.

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13 December 2011

Colombia: Professor's Resignation Sparks Debate on Writing

Written by Julián Ortega Martínez · Education, Youth

Colombian journalist and university professor Camilo Jiménez sparked an international debate on writing in the digital age, Colombia's higher education system and other related issues after he posted an entry in his blog explaining why he resigned from teaching an editing class after nine years.

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Updates about Colombia

18 February 2012

English

Colombia's Office of the Attorney General asked a judge to issue and arrest warrant and include an international Interpol red card for former peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo. Restrepo, who held said office for 7 years during the government of former president Álvaro Uribe, is now a fugitive and is charged with false demobilizations of groups outside the law. The issue is being discussed by Twitter users [es], citizen media [es] and in general [es] by various media outlets.

• Lully

14 February 2012

Spanish

Lessons for a Kiss, a Colombian film categorized by writer and director Juan Pablo Bustamante as a romantic comedy for men, will premiere on Facebook on Valentine's day (Feb. 14) and will stay online for 3 months. It will be available for rental for $.99 cents.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

7 February 2012

Updates

Setty recommends the Institute of the Americas' English-language podcast series on energy in Latin America.

• Silvia Viñas

6 February 2012

English

YouTube, mass media, internet, social networks and blogs are echoing the celebration of 100 years of daily circulation of main newspaper of city of Medellin, El Colombiano, the date on which it unveiled its new design for both print and online versions.

• Lully

2 February 2012

Spanish

The Born on December 31st documentary by Priscila Padilla exposes a human rights violation the Wayuu indigenous group have been under. Many of their national IDs, mass produced to get important votes in election periods, state they were all born on the same date and feature offensive made-up names; which they were unable to notice because Spanish is not their native language.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

27 January 2012

Spanish

Colombian journalist Héctor Abad (@hectorabadf) [es] is one of many Twitter users who are alarmed [es] by Twitter's decision to implement “a sort of geolocated censorship”, as Periodismo Ciudadano explains [es]. On social networks in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries users are quoting and sharing related blog posts by Juan Luis Sanchez [es] and Víctor Solano [es], among others.

• Lully Posada

Spanish

Jesus Ramon Rivera Bulla, rector of the University of Tolima, resigned after 11 years holding his position just days after journalist Daniel Condell [es] accused him [es] of nepotism in an article for magazine Semana. Carlos Arturo Gamboa [es] refers to the issue in his blog, while netizens on social networks [es] and blogs [es] are echoing and analyzing the accusation.