Carlos vives pablo escobar biography
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Dust and ashes: what remain of Escobar’s legacy
At 11:53 am on Friday, February 22, 2019, a loud explosion was heard in the heart of El Poblado, an exclusive area of Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia and capital of the Antioquia department. It was a deep and reverberating blow that resounded across several blocks. The explosion brought to mind the dark hours in Medellín’s history, at the end of the eighties, when a city of hard-working people lived through their most difficult moments, faced with the barbarity of one of the most ruthless criminals in history: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. Fortunately, today things are completely different. Those days are history and they remain only in memories of the past. Unlike in the opulent times of Escobar, this time the neighborhood was evacuated prior to the event, so no one was nearby at the moment of the controlled implosion. This time, not a single person was injured. Instead, the victims and relatives’ applause and tears of
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Colombia
Famous Colombian People: Colombian Artists, Scientists, Leaders, Musicians, Politicians and Athletes
As a passionate and progressive country, Colombia is famous not only for its rich volcanic soils that produce the finest coffee in the world, enormous variety of flowers, emeralds and gold, but also for the outstanding literary figures, dynamic leaders, great sportsmen, very talented musicians and many other.
:: List of Famous People from Colombia ::
Fernando Botero
Born in Medellin, this world renowned artist has been painting since the late 1940’s but it wasn’t until almost 20 years later when his trademark style of round and inflated figures appeared. Later on, during the early 70’s Botero began creating sculptures without leaving his beloved paintings aside. The works of this Colombian artist, who once dreamed of becoming a bullfighter, now grace museums and cities all around the world.
Carlos Vives
This multifaceted artist originally from Sa
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ByLeila Cobo
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN THE PRE-INTERNET 1980s in Cali, Colombia, my father subscribed to Time magazine, and every week, the shiny, ostensible purveyor of everything that was of import in the world arrived in the mail.
I’d scour Time in search of any news—good, bad, whatever—about Colombia. spara for an occasional natural disaster reviewed in a paragraph or two, there never was any. Until Pablo Escobar became the world’s anti- hero in the late 1980s, and except for Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize for literature in 1982, Colombia was mostly absent from global and certainly from US consciousness. I read the dry entry on Colombia in Collier’s Encyclopedia and attempted to man sense of its insufficient information. Was this how people in other parts of the world viewed us? A far-away, underdeveloped