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Sunday, 13 July 2008

Is This the End for FARC?


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Labels: Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, FARC, Ingrid Betancourt, Terrorism

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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2008 (54)
    • ►  December (1)
      • Blue Gold: World Water Wars
    • ►  November (4)
      • No Surprises: Highest Murder Rates in the World
      • Venezuealan Regional Elections
      • James Bond to the rescue...in Bolivia!
      • The Demise of Regional Division in Bolivia?
    • ►  October (9)
      • South Park does Peruvian Panpipe Music
      • Financial & Economic Crisis hits Latin America
      • Is Obama right to object to Colombian FTA?
      • Latin America Debated in the US Presidential Debat...
      • South American World Cup Qualification - 10th Roun...
      • The Freezing of US-Bolivian Relations
      • The Once Glorious Uruguayan World Cup Winners
      • South American World Cup Qualification: Round #9
      • Global Depression: So What about Latin America?
    • ►  September (2)
      • Will the Brazilian Police be Taking Note?
      • Anti-Americanism Alive and Well in Latin America
    • ►  August (3)
      • Bolivia Election: Post-Mortem
      • Violent Outbreaks in Santa Cruz
      • History Repeating Itself?
    • ▼  July (7)
      • Argentina's National Airline Renationalised
      • Bolivia in the National Geographic
      • “¡El Gas Nos Pertenece Por Derecho!”: The National...
      • Is This the End for FARC?
      • Stockhom Syndrome Anyone?
      • The President's League Table
      • Putting Those 1978 Ghosts to Bed
    • ►  June (11)
      • CUBA: The Socialist vs. Capitalist debate
      • Is Brazil Part of Latin America?
      • South American World Cup Qualification - 6th Round...
      • Latin America Pays for the Price for Fuel Subsidy
      • South American World Cup Qualification - 5th Round...
      • Hugo Chavez and the 'U-Turn'
      • Good News, Bad News - from the ‘Havana-Caracas Ax...
      • Castles in the Sand: A prediction of more economic...
      • Me and My 'Mate'
      • Racism in Bolivia
      • Two More Bolivian Regions 'Back Autonomy'
    • ►  May (11)
      • Fidel Responds to Obama
      • Todos Somos Americanos
      • Venezuelan Flags on London Buses
      • The Fighting Cholitas
      • Reflections on a Forgotten Continet
      • Barack Obama on Cuba
      • Brazilian Democracy under Lula and the Partido dos...
      • Chávez Tightens Grip on Venezuela Economy
      • More Political Shenanigans in Bolivia (where else?...
      • Bolivia in the News
      • Venezuela - An Empty Revolution?
    • ►  April (3)
      • The Pink Tide Continues - in Paraguay
      • Tragedy in the Andes
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2007 (13)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (4)

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Have recently graduated from the Universtiy of London with MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development. I've spent 3 years in Latin America: as an excchange student in Bolivia, teaching Enlgish in Argentina, as an intern journalist in Peru, and last but not least...the obligatory back-pack tour from Mexico to Brazil. Would love to move back at some pointy. Anywhere specific? Well I have my eyes set on the Sierras Cordobesas (as beatiful as the Scottish Highlands, but with the added bonus of it being perpetually warm. But honestly almost anywhere would do me. Love the Latin music scene - anything from rock classics like Soda Stereo and Cafe Tacuba, to the funky electr-tango sound of the Gotan Project and Bajofondo Tangoclub, or even the melodic musings of Kevin Johansen. And then of course there is the resurgent film-scene: Diarios de motocicleta, Amores perros, Cidades de deus to name but a few...
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