Luis Soriano is the proprieter of the “Biblioburros,” two book-laden donkeys who bring literature to neighbors in La Gloria, Colombia. Says Soriano, writerly…ly: “This began as a necessity; then it became an obligation; and after that a custom,” he...

In early 2008 a panicked email made the rounds in Latin America, warning about the dangers of a new drug, “Burundanga.” The email claimed that criminal uses of the incapacitating drug against lone women and partygoers was becoming “an...

Carlos Vives painted on his very best jeans in order to introduce Shakira onstage at a concert in Leticia, Colombia. The two performed “La Gota Fria” and “La Tortura” in an effort to promote peace and the liberation of...

This is video of Ingrid Betancourt’s dramatic rescue including the very moment she found out she was free. It has no sound, but is moving enough to make you appreciate your freedom this Fourth of July weekend. Video shows...

Lorenzo Betancourt-Delloye, the comely, young son of recently recovered FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt, was bravely campaigning for his mother’s release all over France long before the rescue. (God, is there anything that isn’t completely doable about this man?) In...

Now that Ingrid Betancourt is safely with her family, probably on their way to France as we write, can we just say how hot her son Lorenzo is? (We read that Ingrid’s mother is a former Miss Colombia, so...

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, along with fourteen other hostages, has been freed by your friendly neighborhood Farc after six years in captivity: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had made her rescue a priority, said he was very happy. Her...

As part of their ongoing effort to bring you, oh closeted striped-shirt enshrouded i-banker, “snow” for which to “ski” with “snow bunnies” and “prostitutes,” Colombian drug cartels have taken to transporting cocaine in homemade water craft. They are ingenious...

Juan is an 18-year-old who lives in Miami, Florida. His parents moved here from Colombia when Juan was a teeny 6-year-old Colombaby who thought they were just all going to Disney World. Now, 12 years later, Juan is legally...

Venezuela is dismissing documents from Colombia that link President Hugo “Cha Cha” Chavez to Colombian terrolutionaries Farc - $300 million dollars’ worth of linkage, to be precise: The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it would return to Colombia documents...

Peruvian magazine, Caretas has an attention-getting cover this week for the Hugo-Chavez-is-funding-FARC story. Albeit, a little disturbing this early in the morning. Sorry for any breakfasts that just upchucked. After the jump, check out a photo of a rather...

Humanitarian and tireless human rights activist, Hugo Chavez, has appealed to Farc leaders to free their remaining female hostage, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped in 2002: Speaking in Caracas, alongside the mother of captive Ingrid...

In case anyone was wondering why, exactly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is oh so very invested in Farc, a Colombian terrorist revolutionary group, wonder no more. Documents found on slain Farc leader Raúl Reyes confirm long-standing suspicions that money...

Never one to leave us without fodder for our little website, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez worked himself into a tizzy this weekend over some military strikes Colombia committed in a cross-border raid against a leading FARC rebel commander taking...

Huge numbers of people gathered all over Colombia as part of a massive protest condemning the practices of the Farc: Some estimates put the number of people protesting in Bogota at between 500,000 and two million. Thousands more protested...

Colombian Fernando Aguirre, who claims to be the son of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, likes to dress up as his daddy and patrol the most dangerous slums in Bogotá, Colombia. He lives off the contributions that people...

Remember when we reported on the face-meltingly hot nuptials of Vogue’s Lauren Davis and Bolivian billionaire Andres Santo Domingo? Obviously, you’ve thought of nothing else, you impoverished cretin. Well now there’s photographic evidence of just how fabulous these sweaty...

The Colombian government has taken to using advertising campaigns in an effort to get guerrilla members, like those in Farc, to leave the nation’s jungles and re-enter civilian life: To reach the guerrillas, radio has proved the best means...

Vogue writer Lauren Davis got married to billionaire Andres Santo Domingo a few weeks ago. We know, we know. Most exciting news of the year; we’ve totally come a bowlful of Jordan almonds just typing about it. Anyway, the...

A small eruption in southern Colombia forced many to evacuate their homes. However, experts would like to stress that it was no big deal. It happens to a lot of volcanos: The volcano became reactivated 20 years ago and...

Members of the terrorist group insurgent army known as the Farc, kidnapped six tourists — five Colombians and one Norwegian — in Colombia’s Choco province. And they promise so much more totally non-terror-inspiring fun in the year to come:...

President Hugo Chavez would rather you not classify those fun-loving ragamuffins in Farc as terrorists. After all, what’s a little kidnapping, rape and torture now and again? They’re more like a frat, really: “The Farc and the ELN are...

Contrary to initial information released by Farc, Emmanuel Rojas, son of former hostage Clara Rojas and one of her captors, had not seen his mother since he was eight months old. The two were reunited for the first time...

Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez have finally been freed after having been held as hostages by Farc for several years. The two women were flown from Colombia to Venezuela: Earlier they were flown out of the Colombian jungle by...

No trip to Colombia is complete without visiting a mud volcano and getting all covered with gloppy, thick, brown… stuff. And to think, some places charge extra for that sort of thing: The goo is thick and rich, holding...

You might recall that Farc had decided to hand over three hostages, including former aide Clara Rojas’ son, a young boy fathered by one of their guerrilla members, over to Hugo Chavez because he’s such a swell kind of...

Colombian rebels have decided to release three hostages - former Colombian congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez, former aide Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Clara Rojas, and Rojas’ son Emmanuel, who was fathered by a guerrilla fighter: Colombia agreed Wednesday to allow...

Mexican singer and former child-molester-enabler Gloria Trevi is in trouble again, this time because of her dealings with Fernando Rodríguez Mondragón, whose father was big-time Colombian drug-lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. In his book El Hijo Del Ajedrista II, [Ed....

Clara Rojas, the campaign manager for kidnapped Colombian politician and anti-corruption activist Ingrid Betancourt, is expected to be released: Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels Tuesday ordered the release of Clara Rojas, kidnapped with French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt in 2002, and...

Venezuelan President and never-shutter-upper Hugo Chávez summoned Pavel Rondón, the country’s ambassador to Colombia, back to Caracas, exacerbating the existing rift between the two countries and their leaders. Duh-rama!: Chavez turned on [Colombian] President Alvaro Uribe Nov. 25, calling...

English rock band Blur’s (What are those crazy gringos up to these days?) bass player and former junkie Alex James is working with the Colombian government on an anti-drug campaign called “Shared Responsibility,” which aims to raise awareness about...

Luis Miguel Aldana, an unemployed Colombian with a knack for iron work has sewn his mouth shut and locked himself behind an iron mask to bring attention to his family’s economic plight. He hopes his hunger strike will also...

Turns out JLo is not the only one going Mordor on your ass. There is buzz around the Interwebs about how Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera is expected to convert the city of Cartagena,...

A reality show in Colombia has been canceled after a contestant won $25k for admitting under polygraph she hired somebody to kill her husband. The controversial show “Nothing But The Truth” attaches contestants to lie-detector machines and submits them...

Colombians, in their need to worship everything to death, are getting ready to unveil a magnificent statue of native pop singer Juanes in his home town of Carolina del Principe. The statue, a doppelganger for Disney’s John Smith, will...

Eva Longoria spoofed a Paris Hilton sex tape in response to the rumors that her chocha was caught being slam-dunked on video. Oh, and it really sucks. [WWTDD] NASA geeks rename asteroid in honor of Star Trek actor and...

Fruit magnate Chiquita has been fined $25 million for once paying millions of dollars to a Colombian terrorist organization. Chiquita used to pay off Colombian terrorists in exchange for protection of their most profitable banana-growing operations. Portfolio reports: Between...

In Venezuela, Coleo, a rodeo sport typically used by men to show off their machismo, is now popular among the ladies. To win, cowgirls must tip the bull over as many times as they can by yanking on the...

• Cheat on your spouse in Colombia and you’ll be fined up to $4,000 plus community service. Guess they want everyone to concentrate on growing crack. [PoorButHappy.com] • Conan O’Brien recieves a tiny bit of criticism for his Emmy...

The first two iterations of a telenovela featuring a transgender lead character have called on an actual transgender actress to portray her; the program’s third version, however, has balked at this level of true-to-life casting. In Argentina’s “Los Roldán”...

So yesterday’s well thought out call-to-arms didn’t move a single one of you to come forward with information that would validate Johanna Cardona as even just a minor celebrity—i.e., three notches below Carrot Top, one notch higher than your...

Finally—a degrading Colombian TV export that doesn’t involve tits. Greenlit by Fox for an American pilot, game show “Nothing But the Truth” grills contestants with yes-or-no questions that get progressively more personal and invasive as the money at stake...

In the hopes of lampooning tired media practices as lovingly as Stephen Colbert does, we present you with a brief (and superficially researched) comparison of two stories covering that thing you dream about as you look out your office...

• 5 Mexicans are collared after feds find 9,400 lbs. of pot in their Texas stash house. Still not enough to construct that weed van from “Up In Smoke”. [News Channel 5 KRGV] • A man on the set...

At the end of last night’s ‘Entourage’ (the hit HBO series that follows a Mark Wahlberg-inspired character named Vinny Chase as he rises from obscurity to gang bang Hollywood with his hometown buddies), a full-on trailer aired for the...

In light of the record-setting $12 million “Harry Potter And the Order Of the Phoenix” made in its midnight U.S. debut, we decided to poke around the net and see how the movie fared in the Spanish-speaking world. The...

Define irony: A hugely famous Colombian entertainer from the town of Medellín—made synonymous with the legendary drug cartel ruled by supreme coke-slanger Pablo Escobar—wants to weaken the stranglehold that cocaine traffickers have on his native land. Ask Latin pop...

Latin bloggers made a minute fuss today about the appearance of busty Colombian actress Sofía Vergara in last night’s season 4 premiere of the Hollywood-themed HBO series Entourage. The episode mockuments the 5 months spent by the show’s main...

For his first trick as recently-anointed head of NBC Programming, Ben Silverman has bought the rights to Colombian telenovela “Sin tetas no hay paraíso”. “Without Breasts There is no Paradise” is the working title, but it doesn’t work for...

Mexicans fear that Guatemalans are illegally immigrating to Mexico. Colombians are moving into Venezuela to escape war, but are bringing violence to that country. Peruvians are entering Ecuador to sell as many finger puppets and alpaca scarves as they...