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FROM MARBLE GRASS, TO CARIBBEAN COAST – Colombian creativity, stranger than a checkered dog

Where you cannot feel more bored than a monkey in a bonsai tree Ciudad Perdida is a multiday jungle walk to the ancient ruins of the Tayrona civilization. As the Andes give way to Los Llanos, a 550,000-sq-km swath of tropical grasslands shared with Venezuela. Colombia boasts all of South America’s allure, and more. Such as soaring Andean summits, unspoiled …

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LOVE MADE IT IN US, LIKE A DAY IT WAS LIGHT – Meira Delmar: Evening is no longer an evening; it is the memory of that other

The perception of having already met, of being the expected “other”. In her honor, the National Poetry Prize that bears her name was created. She was a poet of Lebanese Colombian origin. Born in Barranquilla on a day in August 1922, Olga Isabel Chams Eljach became know under the pseudonym of Meira Delmar. Among the most significant poets of the …

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