Colombia’s Group Matches

Cafeteros vs Elephants Ivory Coast (population 20 million): Africa’s highest-ranked team in Brazil, the Ivory Coast have featured at the previous two World Cups and...

Darker Side Of Football: Politics Behind The Beautiful Game

When a nation like Qatar buys the World Cup, the question isn’t whether FIFA is dirty. It’s whether the football body can ever be...

Thoughts On The Universe

Four young artists question representations of the cosmos through a conceptual stairway to the stars in the Galeria de Santa Fe. Situated a few blocks...

Giro d’Italia… Giro d’Colombia?

The 2014 edition of the Giro d’Italia will go down in history as a Colombian triumph   In the three week race through Northern Ireland, Ireland...

I Walked On The Wild Side

After last edition’s preview article, I had to go and check out the, uh, fun and games at the festival de BDSM/Fetish Colombia 2014. Held...

Paint The Town Pink

It’s that time of year again when we get to marvel at flourescent costumes, eccentric floats and be part of one of the most...

Featured Venue – A Seis Manos

Born in 2010 as the brainchild of two Frenchmen and a Colombian, A Seis Manos combines food, culture, art and music in beautiful surroundings....

Film Reviews

The Grand Budapest Hotel     5 stars An American author comes of age as Wes Anderson delivers a madcap romp through a fictionalised Eastern Europe.  Sparkling...

Two Wheels Good

Beware the buseta, the pothole and the basuco head. Consider yourself warned! OK, so you’ve been out and picked up your bike, it’s your first...

Making Peace Work

Employment for demobilized FARC fighters is key to a just peace   Ever since the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces...

Yellow Fever Strikes

Greek team unable to find the back of the net as Colombian side dominates with in 3-0 victory On Saturday June 14 the Colombian national...

International Sports Round Up

Tennis: Nadal retains Roland Garros crown Rafael Nadal won his ninth French open crown. In a battle of titans, the world number one faced world...

A Game Of Two Halves

Football, fútbol, fussball...it’s an international language... Except in the States, where they call it soccer. Oh, and Italy, they say calcio.  The ex-manager of...

Cost Of Free Trade

Analysis: ignoring agrarian strikers’ demands will not make them go away, and may make matters worse   With all of the news coverage surrounding Colombia’s presidential...

Saving Bogota’s Mountains

A group of citizens wants to block the construction of high-rise buildings on the side of the city’s idyllic eastern mountain range By Mike Ceaser Should...

Giro d’Italia 2014

Everybody’s watching the Colombians in this year’s Giro d’Italia – for the favourites like Quintana and Uran, for Henao who is the youngest competitor...