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Comment on The Murder of Noah Goldberg AKA ‘Medellin Paisa’ by Al

Al — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:46:57 +0000

I spent two weeks in Medellin at the end of July and first week of August in 2011and never encountered any problem. Thanks to a recommendation, I stayed in Poblado. When folks like Noah G. engage in deals like your story mentioned, then one has to be watchful for enenmies or the competition. I wasn’t there for sex but to visit.

Comment on Contributed Story: Dating Chinese Women by Daryl

Daryl — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:48:06 +0000

I agree. Thats exactly what I have found. No love, unable to consider anyones feelings but their own, poor sex. poor kissing and they expect you to bow to their very presence. Of course deceit is rife as is the worship of money. Overall a very poor guality of person. And this is a long term relationship. As soon as i was silly enough to get married out comes the abuse. Luckily for me she was not in my country yet so divorce was the option before i was condemed forever. They are bad news. I actualy think i was to good to her and she had mistaken my genuine kindness for a human weakness.

Comment on The Death of Privacy & The New Publicness by Why I’m Using My Name | This Rough Beast

Why I’m Using My Name | This Rough Beast — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:56:51 +0000

[...] One of the main dilemmas I had when setting up this blog was whether or not to use my real name. On the one hand, the hassle of having to keep up an online identity isn’t something I want to deal with. Considering that I want to focus on goings on around where I live and uphold something of a localist spirit, it would be more than a little limiting to constantly have to worry about saying something that could give my location or something else telling away. On the other hand, my naturally paranoid instincts have scenarios from identity theft to stalking to saying something that is taken out of context by some fanatically-PC bureaucrat who decides to make things difficult. In the end, I decided to use my name because I want to be able to harness the social technology at my disposal to dialogue face-to-face, as it were, and not behind permanent masks. I also plan on using this blog as a way to improve my own writing and get it into a more public sphere, so a pseudonym would also be self-defeating. Reading this article by Colin at Expat Chronicles convinced me that my decision was the right one. [...]

Comment on Taxis in Colombia vs. Peru by Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:33:18 +0000

I got robbed in Cali once, 8 at night with a German friend near the Iguana Hostel… We caught a random cab and told the driver our destination, him taking a normal route… It’s worth nothing we were both speaking in Colombian Spanish and had a couple years in the country by that point so we aren’t fools. Anyway, he calls his ‘wife’ and next thing we know there’s two other guys with guns in the car searching us as we tear through Cali at very high speeds… Assholes even took my prescription glasses and driver’s license… So be careful there…

Comment on The Death of Privacy & The New Publicness by Erin Donaldson

Erin Donaldson — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:36:08 +0000

I have to comment…..wow! I am currently living in Eje Cafetero here in Colombia and I am so impressed by your article. I have been a fan of English Teacher X since I started teaching ESL a year and a half ago. In fact I found this page because of him so lots of respect for that. However you make a good argument for coming out into the public. I teach but my aspirations are much much higher and I find the economic climate in Colombia to be ripe for my ideas to come to fruition. This article gave a viewpoint that I think will go a long ways towards helping me see my dreams as a writer, tour operator, translator, English teacher…..do you get the idea yet?

Comment on La Punta de Callao in Pictures by Luigi

Luigi — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:21:04 +0000

aaron that is why you are coming by bus, the poor scum coming to Lima by bus

Comment on La escopolamina en Colombia by gina

gina — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:01:38 +0000

Me parece buena la apreciacion que haces sobre la escopolamina, pero si es cierto lo de los taxis y las revistas, aunque evidentemente la mayoria de casos ocurren en burdeles o las llamadas zonas rojas, pero me parece bien que te guste Colombia y que sepas la verdad sobre que esto no ocurre en cada esquina como todos los extranjeros piensan.

Comment on Relocating to Bogotá, Colombia by Keanu

Keanu — Sat, 11 May 2013 05:35:42 +0000

how old are you?

Comment on The Mick’s Prison Murder by kevin barker

kevin barker — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:41:11 +0000

yeah i know Mick, by a different name though. Great jokes! Don’t know what he made of me — probably thought I was a typical middle class Canadian cunt. lol …

Comment on The Final Word on Bricheras by edgar

edgar — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:50:11 +0000

Excellent collins, I was lucky to find it in online in English, is the one that was made in London in 1688 and I think you can read all. A gift from me.
http://www.archive.org/stream/royalcommentarie00vega#page/n7/mode/2up

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6923531M/The_royal_commentaries_of_Peru_in_two_parts.

You can also read one of the celebrations that took place in the library of the United States Congress, on the occasion of having the work in your library

http://www.washingtonhispanic.com/Passissues/paper11_27_9/html/gente.html