Multiplatinum artist Maelo Ruiz performing his hit "Regalame una noche" in Colombia

Many many people have seen this video in Colombia.



Check this one out and more on Youtube.

Colombia at a glance. Pretty pics of the country!!!

To see more pics, go to Flickr.

Just in case you wanna go to the movies

By Helda Martínez

The latest film out of Colombia is based on the true story of a priest in a rural town whose passions include a search for justice in an area that, like so many in this civil war-torn country, is hemmed in by armed groups, whether far-right paramilitaries, leftist guerrillas or state security forces.

Gabriel is an idealistic 33-year-old priest who stands up to inept local officials as well as the heads of the armed group that holds real power in the town.

Once an irregular armed group, on the left or the right, has gained control over an area, it begins to interfere with government decisions to forward its own interests – an all-too common scenario that forms the backdrop for the film "La pasión de Gabriel" (Gabriel's Passion), whose star, Andrés Parra, has already won a Best Actor award for his performance as Father Gabriel, at the 2009 Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico.

As believing in God as he is ingenuous about earthly matters, he believes he can bring about equality, peace and respect for decisions reached by the local community, and ignores warnings to stay out of things.

The warnings become more pointed as Gabriel insists on the need to repair a bridge linking the town with another town. But the armed group that controls the area is opposed because it knows that as soon as the bridge is built, the army will come in, and fighting will break out.

In effect, once the bridge is repaired, thanks to the efforts of the priest and the community, the army arrives, asserts its authority, asks barbed questions, issues threats and warnings, and finally leaves.

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COLOMBIA: Would you take the risk? video

WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO, it's worth it!!!
Would you take the risk to travel to Colombia? Have you been informed certainly? Watch this video till the end and know what Colombia means...

COLOMBIA IS PASSION!!!! BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, BRIGHT CULTURE AND AMAZING LANDSCAPES.






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Vibe won a trip to Argentina thru a Bueno Entonces contest. Check out her experience and reviews

Day 3 in Buenos Aires

I’ve had an AHA moment today. My teacher is very cute. His name is Martin and he’s 're-argentino'. That means REALLY Argentino in Argentino. He spent a year in Ireland teaching Spanish last year and he missed Buenos Aires a lot.. We talk a lot about Argentina and about the culture, about the crazy chaos of it all, the subversive attitude of the Argentines towards politics, finance, all that jazz. The Bulgarian likes to talk a lot about the Argentine girls, I don’t blame him. They mainly have very very long hair and are very pretty.

Martin says Bien, Entonces.. a lot. Or Muy Bien, entonces... I ask him why doesn’t he say Bueno, entonces (like the name of the course of course) and he explains that “Bueno,” often is something you say when you’ve had a enough of talking, or have had enough of talking about a particular subject. He explains that when somebody starts going, bueno bueno bueno on the phone, basically they are telling you that the conversation is over and they’ve had enough.

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To learn more about Bueno, entonces, go to General Linguistics.

Colombia Ecopetrol Swaps $1.49B Worth Of International Bonds

BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia's state-control oil company Ecopetrol SA (ECOPETROL.BO, EC) swapped $1.49 billion worth of its international bonds in identical bonds with no restriction to trade on the secondary market.

Ecopetrol offered to swap the $1.5 billion bonds maturing in 2019 and paying a 7.625% coupon it sold in July with identical new bonds, the company said in a statement Monday.

The operation is a requirement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The bonds originally sold by Ecopetrol had restrictions for buyers, so Ecopetrol is offering to replace those old bonds with new ones that will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and will trade freely.

To read more Colombian News, go to Wall Street Journal.