This is the list of the subjective well-being in 97 countries based on reported happiness and life satisfaction, equally weighted. The rank is stated from happiest to least happy. Negative scores indicates that a majority of the population is unhappy/dissatisfied with life.
It comes from a combined data from 1995 - 2007 World Values Surveys. Read the rest of this entry »
XIV Seminar at Ciudad Don Bosco
By Albeiro Rodas
A new political crisis has put the Colombian Peso and the Dollar in a frenetic dance of revaluations and devaluations. The Supreme Court of Justice’s decision to sentence the ex-Senator Yidis Medina, who confessed that she accepted bribery from the government in order to support the constitutional reform that allowed the consecutive presidential election, caused also that the 2006 – 2010 presidential period was questioned in its legality. To this, President Álvaro Uribe called almost soon after the Yidis´ sentence for a referendum to repeat the 2006 elections, an event that created strong reactions from Uribe´s opponents and an institutional crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
By Albeiro Rodas | Foto de Alberto Fuguet publicada por Cuarto Poder y foto de Andrés Caicedo.
“The first enemy of Macondo”, it is the way that Alberto Fuguet, the Chilean writer, uses to refer to the Colombian poet who committed suicide in 1976. But, what is Fuguet saying and why? To understand such idea we have to know Fuguet, who dedicates to Caicedo many articles. As one of the so called New Chilean Narrative, Fuguet is as controversial as Caicedo and surely it is joining both characters. He was born in 1964 in Santiago, just several kilometers far from the northern South American city of Cali, where Caicedo was a young boy of 13 years old going from school to school and expulsion to expulsion of his turbulent life. At his 13 years old, 1989, almost 13 years after Caicedo drank 60 pills of secobarbital in Cali, Fuguet returned with his family from California to live in a country governed by Augusto Pinochet. But while Caicedo went to learn the language of the most popular sectors of his city, Fuguet had to learn his own language, Spanish, a factor that would play an interesting role in his literature. Read the rest of this entry »
Colombia is the second American country to be the seat of Campus Party, a Spaniard Festival on Digital Technology that will have Corferias as its headquarters between June 23 and 29.
By Albeiro Rodas - Picture from Campus Party Brazil
Colombia Passport. Campus Party is one of the biggest European LAN Party that recently conquered the Americas with its activities. A LAN Party is a big meeting of persons with their computers to play and share information and technology. It is realized every year gathering fans of technology from all Europe. This year Campus Party crossed the Atlantic first in Brazil by February and now in Colombia, a country that was not contemplated in the list, but the invitation of Telecom and the perspectives of a successful program in the second South American capital brought the Campus Party to the Andean nation. Read the rest of this entry »
Many concentrate in factors as the political conflict, but there are other elements to be worried with the Colombian children. Diarrhea can kill also people, more if those people live in extreme poverty like not having drinking water. According with a report of the Vice Ministry for Drinking Water in Colombia, about 1,300 children died due to the lack of this vital element. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hollywood Walk of Fame will have in 2009 a start for the Colombian singer Shakira, when her name appeared in the list os those selected by the Commercial Chamber of Hollwywood this week. It is the first time that a Colombian name will appear in the tourist Boulevard, recognizing one of the most world popular South American singers of the present. The Walk of Fame is embedded with more than 2,000 starts to honour not only human celebrities, but also fictional characters for their contribution to the entertainment industry. Good for Shakira and we hope to see more Colombians around the Hollywood Boulevard.
About 300 fake passports and visas are detected by the police of the Barajas International Airport, according with a report of EFE TV of last May. Most of the passports were hold by Colombian, Peruvian and Dominican citizens, who used fake passports from countries that do not need visa to come into the European Community or have less controls.
Many of those citizens use to pay big amounts of money in their countries to criminal nets of fakers in about USA 500. The fakers frequent the surroundings of foreign consulates and embassies to aboard persons who are applying for visas. Many of the persons, who agreed to get their visa in that way, were thinking that they were contracting a kind of visa service agency, but many of them did it knowing that they were getting fake visas or passports. Read the rest of this entry »
While things seem to be well in economics, the top leaders of paramilitary groups are on US courts, the FARC guerrilla is at its most weaken time and legal procedures like Parapolitic are cleaning the most high positions of the Colombian state, the office of the United Nations against Drugs pointed out a situation that is complex: the coca grows rose 27% in Colombia in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
The controversy among Chile and Peru for the sovereignty of certain maritime areas is a conflict that started at the beginning of the 19th century.
By Albeiro Rodas, Map by Adonde.com
The Colombian Passport. What many do not know or do not remember, is that Peru was actually the colonial capital of South America, at least from a modernist perspective. The today 8 million inhabitants Lima was the first and most important seat of the Spaniard administration for three centuries. The other thing that this controversy involves is Bolivia and its claim to an ocean part. For the last century La Paz have done a long and unsuccessful lobby to claim its sea and maybe for an external observer it could be seen as a kind of beg for something that is a Bolivian romantic wish.
Is that true? Checking history will answer the anxieties of our modern times. Read the rest of this entry »
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Pasaporte colombiano: economía, sociedad y cultura
