By Ovidio Castro Medina Bogotá, Jan 31 (EFE).- Venezuela has become a powerful link in a chain of autocracies led by Russia, China, and Iran challenging the world’s democracies, Spanish writer Javier Moro, winner of the 2011 Planeta Prize for “El imperio eres tú,” told EFE. Moro, who turns 69 on Feb. 11, is visiting …
By Ovidio Castro Medina La Chorrera, Colombia, Jan 31 (EFE).- Indigenous peoples in Colombia’s Amazonas province who suffered from the barbarity unleashed by the greed surrounding exploitation of the rubber boom and the armed internal conflict that beset the country for decades are reviving their dances to recover their culture and erase the traces of …
By Ovidio Castro Medina La Chorrera, Colombia, Jan 27 (EFE).- An expedition aimed at discovering new species and identifying productive and sustainable biodiversity-based alternatives has gotten under way in the Colombian Amazon, a region sealed off from science for decades by the nation’s longstanding armed conflict. The “Bio, Alto Rio Igara-Parana” expedition, a collaboration between …
By Ovidio Castro Medina Tierra Grata, Colombia, Nov 21 (EFE).- The path toward peace is a rocky but necessary one, according to ex-rebel combatants from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Indonesia who gathered here to share their experiences. “Every government should commit to peace,” Juan Javier Martinez, a political science graduate and ex-member the Salvadoran …
By Ovidio Castro Medina Bogota, Apr 18 (EFE).- Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, plans to celebrate his 90th birthday surrounded by family in the northern Italian town of Pietrasanta and doing what he now loves the most: painting watercolors. Though on the verge of …