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Where’s the Beef? It’s in…

Where’s the Beef? It’s in Your French FriesThis award winning series of articles from India West, an American weekly, looks at the McDonalds beef in the fries brouhaha from the viewpoint of people from India, and of Jains, who are…

Graduated? Now grab a gun…

Graduated? Now grab a gun or some cocaine Every year only 70 out of more than 800 high school graduates in the towns of Saravena and Araquita in Colombia’s oil-rich west go on to higher education. “The rest have no…

Think you had a bad…

Think you had a bad day? News from the ground in Columbia, here, and here According to Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places, Columbia IS the world’s most dangerous place.

Vital to who?

Vital to who? G.I.’s Enter the Colombia Fray to Protect a Vital Oil Pipeline Casting a wary eye for rebel snipers, Lt. Felipe Zúñiga and his counterinsurgency troops slog through the wet fields and patches of jungle here. Their mission…