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		<title>Hiking around Bogota: Paramo de Sumapaz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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The territory of the Bogota Capital District may bear the environmental impacts of Colombia’s biggest metropolis, it also harbors a unique, yet not very well-known nature reserve. (Published earlier on Colombia Reports)
Situated in Bogota’s largest and mainly rural locality and less than three hours driving south from the city centre, you’ll reach a landscape hardly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=71&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ezel verkracht bij overval</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voor de jeugdige overvallers die donderdagochtend Nederlandse tijd in het Colombiaanse Cartagena een circus beroofden was de gebruikelijke buit blijkbaar niet bevredigend. Ze vergrepen zich tijdens de overval aan een vrouwtjesezel, het enige aanwezige circusdier. 
*Artikel eerder gepubliceerd op http://www.depers.nl/opmerkelijk/339971/Ezel-verkracht-bij-overval.html
De bende maakte bij de diefstal onder meer kassa-opbrengsten, circusattributen, make-up en geluidsapparatuur buit. De acrobaten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=69&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ELN website runs comfortably on Dutch server</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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* This article was published on Colombia Reports. A Dutch version of this article was published on Webwereld.
Despite being regarded a terrorist organization by the European Union, the website of Colombia&#8217;s second largest guerrilla group ELN runs comfortably on a server in the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam. The internet provider is a leftist Spanish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=64&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bogota off the beaten track</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Psychologist and politician Hernando Gómez takes tourists to places in Bogota where you generally are happy to stay far away from. His tours offer you a peek in the life of the city’s lowest classes. Article published on Colombia Passport.
After half an hour walking through the Santa Fe neighborhood in the center of Bogota it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=61&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personas de la calle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m indulging myself in Bogotá&#8217;s street life. Monday evening I went for a walk through the Santa Fe-barrio, one of the city&#8217;s red light districts and a very tricky neighbourhood controlled by paramilitary bands. To be sure, I didn&#8217;t go alone, but with a group of twenty and our guide Hernando Gómez, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=48&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bogotá veilig?</title>
		<link>http://leimac.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/bogota-veilig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Bogotá is statistisch gezien een relatief veilige stad, de slechte buurten op de berghellingen in het zuiden en uiterste noorden daargelaten. Ik ben daar nog niet geweest, maar wil er wel een keer heen, onder begeleiding, zonder geld en dingen van waarde.*

Zo nu en dan bereiken je berichten uit die armere wijken. Gisteren kreeg de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=37&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://leimac.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/kafka-in-colombia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Stel, je raakt je identiteitsbewijs kwijt. In Nederland ga je dan naar het stadhuis om een nieuw document op te vragen. Dat kan wat voeten in de aarde hebben, maar écht veel tijd zul je er niet aan kwijt zijn. In Colombia betekent het kwijtraken of beroofd worden van je ‘cedula’ (de moeder van de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=30&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedreigde onderzoeksjournalist laat &#8216;het andere Colombia&#8217; zien</title>
		<link>http://leimac.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/bedreigde-onderzoeksjournalist-laat-het-andere-colombia-zien/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Colombiaanse journalist Hollman Morris was afgelopen weekend in Nederland voor de vertoning van een film over zijn werk op het door Amnesty International georganiseerde ‘Movies that matter’-festival. De 39-jarige Colombiaan viel met zijn kritische en onthullende reportages internationaal veelvuldig in de prijzen, maar wordt in eigen land voortdurend bedreigd.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=23&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bogotá, not as dangerous as you think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Bogotá is not the place your parents want you to be, and telling other travelers you´re  heading for the capital of Colombia is a guaranteed recipe for terrified reactions. For many, the city is synonymous with violence, like the whole country.

True, Colombia only seems to hit the headlines when bad stuff is happening. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=21&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More fun with volcanoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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For some people simply climbing a volcano isn´t exciting enough. There should be a reward  waiting on the top, something better than a great view. Why not board down the slopes after you went through all the trouble of getting there?
That´s what Darryn Webb, the Australian owner of a popular hostel in Léon, Nicaragua, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leimac.wordpress.com&blog=2587034&post=17&subd=leimac&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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