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  • 5
    Sep
    2012
    6:14pm, EDT

    Colombian teachers and students march for improvements

    Luis Eduardo Noriega / EPA

    Students wearing costumes face riot police as hundreds of teachers and students march during a protest in Medellin, Colombia, Sept. 5, 2012. Demonstrators were demanding better pay conditions and rejected the privatization of education.

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    Protesters spit fire during a march by teachers and students in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 5.

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    A riot police officer, with a helmet stained by thrown paint, watches a march of teachers and students protesting a wide range of issues regarding the government's educational policies in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 5.

    Luis Eduardo Noriega / EPA

    Hundreds of teachers and students march during a protest in Medellin, Colombia, Sept. 5.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    Teachers and students shout slogans during a protest against the Colombian National Education Ministry in Cali, Colombia, Sept. 5.

     

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  • 23
    Jul
    2012
    6:36am, EDT

    Joaquin Sarmiento / Reuters

    Decisive moment at a bullfight in Colombia

    A man is thrown by a bull during a traditional bullfight in Arenal, Bolivar, Colombia on July 22, 2012.

    Take a look back at the best images from the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain.

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    Git him!!!

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  • 18
    Jul
    2012
    6:35pm, EDT

    Colombian army retakes strategic hill

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    Colombian army members throw tear gas canisters toward a group of indigenous at the Alto de Berlin hill in Toribio on July 18.

    By Associated Press

    TORIBIO, Colombia — Colombian authorities say they’ve retaken a strategic hill in the country’s turbulent southwest from Nasa Indians who had forcibly dislodged soldiers.

    The action early Wednesday by a squad of riot police came a day after Indians armed with clubs and rocks dragged six soldiers off the hilltop. Read more here

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    Indigenous stand clear of tear gas thrown by Colombian army forces from the Alto de Berlin hill in Toribio, Colombia, on July 18.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    Colombian army members examine indigenous on the Alto de Berlin hill in Toribio, on July 18.

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    • Nasa Indians overpower soldiers in Colombia

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    16 comments

    To everybody posting, you're all correct. But you forget one thing, times have change and anybody can call themselves journalist. Media is about entertainment not news. Those days are long gone.

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  • 17
    Jul
    2012
    4:06pm, EDT

    Nasa Indians overpower soldiers in Colombia

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    Nasa Indians charge a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17. Dozens of Indians attacked half a dozen soldiers guarding communication towers on the outskirts of the town.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Indigenous natives drag Colombian army sergeant Rodrigo Garcia out of his military post on Mount Berlin in Toribioon July 17, 2012.

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    A soldier tries to stop another from shooting in the air.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    A soldier is attacked by indigenous trying to evict them from a military control base in El Alto del Berlin mountain in Toribio, Cauca, Colombia

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Army sergeant Rodrigo Garcia leaves with tears in his eyes after he was forced out of his military post on Mount Berlin on July 17, 2012.

    Nasa Indians near Toribio in southern Colombia have demanded security forces and leftist rebels stay off their land. Local people decided to expel a group of soldiers from the area after clashes resulted in eight people being wounded and several houses damaged, Agence France Presse reports. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Colombians dismantle police post in protest at FARC clashes

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    34 comments

    if indians in the U.S. did this the federal govt. would go in and massacure them, so that corporate could steal THEIR, coal, gold , copper, oil! the only thing left would be the LEAD in their bellies! go indians!

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  • 10
    Jul
    2012
    6:45am, EDT

    EPA

    Colombians dismantle police post in protest at FARC clashes

    Indigenous people from Nasa disassemble a police trench in Toribio, Cauca state, Colombia, on July 9 2012. Indigenous populations have been protesting against clashes between Colombian police and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and demanding peace in their territory.

    FARC funding squeeze driving attacks on oil and mining: minister

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    The Nasa people are showing their determination to keep their territory free of conflict. The Colombian government under Santos should be listening to them. The civil war will not end by flooding the indigenous territories with more than 2000 soldiers. It is actually endangering the local communitie …

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  • 29
    Jun
    2012
    6:43am, EDT

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Watching Euro 2012 in a shack on a Colombian hillside

    Farmers watch telvised coverage of the Euro 2012 semi-final in a shack on a hill in Calandaima, a rural area of Miranda, Colombia, on June 28, 2012.

    Local farmers are in dispute over lands occupied by the army to give them a tactical advantage in the war against FARC guerrillas, Agence France Presse reports. The farmers, afraid of being caught in the crossfire, want the troops to leave the area. A caravan of Colombian social activists on Thursday moved to the top of the Calandaima hill to deliver food to the peasants.

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  • 10
    Jun
    2012
    9:19pm, EDT

    Food fight! Colombians plaster one another with tomatoes

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    Revellers play with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in Sutamarchan Province.

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    Revellers play with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in Sutamarchan Province in Boyaca on Sunday.

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    Revellers play with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina."

    Fernando Vergara / AP

    Firefighters spray water on people at the end of the sixth annual tomato fight festival called "tomatina" in Sutamarchan.

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    2 comments

    Now that looks like fun ....

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  • 31
    May
    2012
    7:32pm, EDT

    Venezuelan soldiers set off explosions to destroy airstrip used by drug traffickers

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    An aerial view shows a clandestine airstrip used for drug smuggling after it was destroyed in a military operation, approximately 22 miles from the border with Colombia, in the state of Apure on Thursday.

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    A clandestine airstrip used for drug smuggling is destroyed.

    Juan Barreto / AFP - Getty Images

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El aissami (C) watches the debris of an aircraft during an operation to destroy clandestine airstrip used by drug traffickers in Apure on Thursday. In the frame of the operation "Boquete" (Hole) launched May 26, two presumed traffickers were arrested and 36 clandestine airstrips and 11 aircrafts destroyed.

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    I bet it takes them weeks to fill in those holes.

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  • 29
    May
    2012
    12:43pm, EDT

    Increased activity of Nevado del Ruiz volcano caused alert from Colombia officials

    AFP - Getty Images

    A plume of smoke billows on May 29, from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, some 130 km west of Bogota in this picture from the Colombian Geological and Mining Institute. Colombian authorities have elevated the alert status in the area to orange due to an increase in the volcano's activity.

    John Jairo Bonilla / EPA

    People cover their faces to keep them from breathing ashes created by Ruiz volcano's eruption in Manizales, Colombia, on May 29. Colombian authorities elevated the alert to orange, after an unusual increase in the volcano activity.

    Related links:

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    1 comment

    Believe it or not, small changes nearby may be affecting the puff. The earth may be warmer and cause fluctuations because of less water, more traffic, and increased farming but less tilling. In countries such as Colombia where farming and farmers were more prevalent in the past.

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  • 15
    May
    2012
    3:36pm, EDT

    Explosion in Bogota, Colombia kills at least two and injures former interior minister

    Fredy Builes / Reuters

    Former Colombian Interior Minister Fernando Londono, who is injured, walks as he is guarded by a bodyguard after an explosion in a central avenue in Bogota on Tuesday. A bomb attack in a commercial district of Colombia's capital Bogota killed two people on Tuesday and injured Londono who was the target, President Juan Manuel Santos said.

    Ricardo Mazalan / AP

    Pedestrians look at the scene after a bomb exploded in Bogota.

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    Police officers, who are explosives experts, stand at the cordoned scene of an explosion in a central avenue in Bogota.

    Fredy Builes / Reuters

    Injured people, with blood on their faces, walk at the scene of an explosion in a central avenue in Bogota. A bomb attack in a commercial district of Colombia's capital Bogota killed two people on Tuesday and injured a former interior minister who was the target, President Juan Manuel Santos said.

    Ian Johnston writes on msnbc.com's World News blog that 19 were injured in the blast in Bogota:

    President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the attack. "This government will not be put off course by these terrorist attacks," he said, according to Reuters. "This was an attack against former minister Fernando Londoño." 

    The TV images showed Londoño being escorted, walking but stunned, from the SUV in a suit and tie with blood stains on part of his chest. One of his bodyguards was holding a gun.

    "Fortunately, Dr. Londono is stable. He's in the hospital," Santos said, The Associated Press reported.

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  • 14
    May
    2012
    6:51pm, EDT

    Coffee, cotton and flowers on eve of Colombia-US free trade agreement's start

    Jose Miguel Gomez / Reuters

    A farmer harvests coffee beans at a farm near Sasaima city in Colombia.

    Jose Miguel Gomez / Reuters

    A farmer harvests coffee beans at a farm near Sasaima city on Monday.

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    Workers prepare roses at Elite greenhouse in Facatativa on Monday.

    John Vizcaino / Reuters

    A worker checks on Gerbera flowers at Elite greenhouse in Facatativa.

    Albeiro Lopera / Reuters

    An employee arranges a bundle of cotton material inside a workshop of textile factory Fabricato in Bello, Antioquia province on Monday.

    Albeiro Lopera / Reuters

    An employee pushes bundles of cotton inside a workshop of a textile factory.

    Stringer/Colombia / Reuters

    A panoramic view of the port of Cartagena on Monday.

    Stringer/Colombia / Reuters

    A crane operator moves a container at the Port of Cartagena.

    Colombia Reports quotes an Oxfam report saying that the free trade deal will "bankrupt small farmers and increase poverty in rural Colombia:"

    According to the report, the deal with Colombia’s leading trade partner will hit the poorest farmers the hardest, arguing that 400,000 of those already making below minimum wage, currently set at $328.08 a month, will lose between 48% to 70% of their income.

    To make up for the loss, the report said that farmers are "likely to take up coca cultivation" for illegal armed groups. The other option for farmers will be to “migrate to urban areas to join some 5 million Colombians – over 10 percent of Colombia’s total population –  who have been forcibly displaced from the countryside over the last 12 years and the great majority of whom live in extreme poverty,” it claimed.

    The Colombian government has denied that the FTA will harm key agricultural sectors.

    “I do not personally believe, nor does the government believe that an apocalyptic shadow is rising over the Colombian countryside, agriculture and livestock industries that will wipe out everything that has been built in the country,” the Agriculture Minister, Juan Camilo Restrepo has said.

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  • 25
    Apr
    2012
    11:20pm, EDT

    Lightning over Cali, Colombia

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A flash of lightning illuminates the night sky during a thunderstorm in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia has predicted heavy rain, some thunderstorms and winds of high intensity for this year's rainy season in Colombia.

     

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