448: Confessions of a Medellin webcam model
On this week's Colombia Calling podcast (Ep448), we get the chance to speak to Ceasar, a 34 year-old Venezuelan webcam model based in Medellin. We learn about the webcam industry, how he got into this...
View Article449: Is it time to legalize cocaine?
On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, Adriaan Alsema, director of Colombia Reports (www.colombiareports.com) joins us to discuss the recent declarations made by president Gustavo Petro about the...
View Article450: On the National Geographic Expedition from Cartagena to Panama City
In a lucky turn of events, I was contracted by National Geographic and Lindblad as a cultural specialist for Colombia on their recent expeditions from Cartagena to Panama and back. Hugging the...
View Article451: La Niña Strikes in Colombia
La Niña is hitting us hard here in Colombia and much of the country is under threat of floods, people are losing their homes and livelihoods. Previous governments have done so little to help vulnerable...
View Article452: President Petro's first 100 days
It's time to discuss the first 100 days of President Gustavo Petro's tenure in Colombia and who better informed to provide us with the total low-down of events but Sergio Guzman, Director of Colombia...
View Article453: Travel to Colombia in 2023
On our inaugural episode for 2023, the Colombia Calling podcast welcomes Bruce McLean of BNBColombia tours back on the show to explain why you should plan to come to Colombia this year. Hear an upbeat...
View Article454: Protests in Colombia: A conversation with Rebecca Sprößer
Remember the German citizen deported from Colombia during the Paro Nacional? Well, this week we have the opportunity to hear Rebecca Sprößer's version of events that ocurred during the Paro Nacional...
View Article455: Colombia's Battle for Memory
“Conflict was not only played out on the battlefield, but also in the symbolic field.” Emily Hart and renowned Colombian political scientist María Emma Wills Obregón discuss collective memory,...
View Article456: Colombia evoking Africa
This week on the Colombia Calling podcast, we delve a little deeper into the African influences in Colombia's music and culture. It's a fantastic conversation that goes well beyond the superficial and...
View Article457: Protecting Colombia's most at-risk children from exploitation in...
On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we have the opportunity to speak to supporters of the UK-based NGO, Children Change Colombia and their experiences of visiting a local partner project led by...
View Article458: Taking Digital Cumbia to the Global Dancefloor
Welcome to Colombia Calling – I’m Emily Hart and today I’m talking to ZZK, one of the top music labels in the world for latino electronica, digital and experimental cumbia, and rainforest electro. From...
View Article459: Colombia's Travel and Tourism Fair
On this week's show, we return to the topic of travel and tourism to Colombia as it is so timely with the ANATO convention taking place last week. We reflect on how the ANATO fair has changed over 15...
View Article460: Wade Davis discusses: Magdalena, River of Dreams
Magdalena: River of Dreams, A Story of Colombia is a captivating new book from Wade Davis--renowned, award-winning, bestselling author and photographer, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence...
View Article461: Tropical Diseases and Disease Ecology in Colombia
This week we speak to Camila Gonzalez Rosas, Director and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Los Andes University in Bogotá and Researcher at the the Centre for Investigations into...
View Article462: Empowering women in the Community of La Honda, Medellin, Colombia
Andrea Gonzalez Duarte Van Der Leeuw was born in Bogotá, adopted as a baby and raised in the Netherlands. After finishing her degree in social work at Hanze University in the Netherlands, Andrea...
View Article463: Volcanic Activity in Colombia Explained
Our guest this week is Natalia Pardo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the Universidad de los Andes. Natalia is a geologist at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá), with...
View Article464: Black and Foreign in Colombia
What inspires a practicing lawyer from St Louis, Missouri to give it all up to move to Cali, Colombia to teach English as a foreign language. Well, this is what Todd Cooley did and we hear about his...
View Article465: A History of Coca Prohibition in Colombia
For decades, coca eradication and substitution, to purportedly stop the cocaine trade at its source, were Colombia’s only policy responses to a plant that had always been part of its culture. These...
View Article466: What's in a name? The Evolution of contemporary Art in Latin America and...
On this Episode of the Colombia Calling podcast, we address the evolution of Art in Latin America and Colombia and are led through this fascinating subject and its personal and political connotations...
View Article467: Chinese Investment in Colombia
China’s engagement in Colombia has significantly increased in the past decade, whereas the country has openly embraced a warmer political and economic relationship with the middle kingdom, its...
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