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515: Justice for Colombia's Children
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - April 23, 2024 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMedellin and Colombia are hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, due to sexual exploitation of children by foreign visitors. In April, a US citizen was caught bringing two girls, ages 12 and 13, into the Hotel Gotham, in the exclusive sector of El Poblado in Medellin. There was all ...
514: Two Hoteliers in Colombia Share their Experiences...and it's not Pretty
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - April 16, 2024 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we sit down and chat with Gary Murray, a former hotelier in Colombia and compare notes on the business. Murray's experiences, on the whole, have been incredibly negative, mine on the other hand have been positive and so we look at some of the socio cul...
513: In Colombia, things are seldom just black or white and one can never take anything for granted, except for the unexpected
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - April 09, 2024 14:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratings"Get the most from your time in Colombia by adjusting your expectations with regard to what you probably take for granted: Punctuality [never], Predictability [rarely], Promiscuity [frequently], and Passion [always]." And so it goes as we explore Colombia by way of Barry Max Wills' writing in...
512: There is no such thing as Spanish
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - April 02, 2024 14:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsJournalist Emily Hart sat with Frank Wynne, tracing his incredible career from the start of his linguistic journey (a breakup and a bookshop in Paris) to his award-winning translation of writers across Latin America and the francophone world – particularly his work on cult Colombian author and ‘...
511: Adventures on the Pacific Coast with Linsey Rankin
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - March 26, 2024 14:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImagine starting your first business venture from a huge wooden treehouse, nestled on a wild island off the coast of the Colombian Pacific. Linsey Rankin left Australia to travel, arrived in Colombia in 2013. After working in tourism, education, and health, she set about creating a business m...
510: Cryptolombia? Digital currencies in Colombia and Latin America
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - March 19, 2024 14:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Emily Hart is setting out into the Wild West of cryptocurrencies here in Colombia and beyond. Is cryptocurrency the future of finance in Latin America? Is it safe? Is it just another way for rich people to hide their wealth from the tax man? Or for criminals to launder income? Or c...
509: Colombia: A Wound that Never Heals
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - March 12, 2024 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast we speak to Sara Tufano, the author of "Colombia: unaherida que no cierra," (Planeta, 2023) and a former member of the Clandestine Colombian Communist Party. After surviving some periods in conflict in Colombia as a member of the FARC guerrillas, she now d...
508: My Neighbourhood, My Dream – boxing and women’s empowerment in the barrios of Medellín
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - March 05, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Emily Hart speaks to Andrea González Duarte about Mi Barrio, Mi Sueño - the women’s empowerment project she founded in La Honda, a neighbourhood in the hills of Medellín. Andrea was born here in Colombia, then was adopted and grew up in the Netherlands, moving back here with a degr...
507: Explaining Nearshoring in Medellin, Colombia
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - February 27, 2024 15:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, Ohio native and now resident of Medellin, Zach Meese, joins us to discuss Nearshoring in his adopted homeland. Now, I am pretty unfamiliar with Nearshoring, so Meese walks me through it and why the city of Medellin, Colombia is the ideal place for a bu...
506: The Amazon Blackwater Expedition
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - February 20, 2024 15:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAdventurer Daniel Eggington is back! After completing the crossing of the Darien jungle along the Pacific side from Colombia to Panama in 2022, Eggington has decided to return to Colombia to embark on a three-month expedition along the Rio Negro all the way to Manaus in Brazil. The Rio Negro ...
505: Photographing the Arahuacas of the Sierra Nevada
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - February 13, 2024 15:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast we hear about British photographer Natasha Johl's work in photographing the Arahuacas in Colombia's Sierra Nevada. Descendents of the Tairona, an ancient South American civilization, indigenous group, the Arhuacos, reside in the Sierra Nevada de Santa M...
504: Colombia's violence from two perspectives
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - February 06, 2024 15:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPaula Delgado-Kling takes us to her homeland, Colombia, where she finds answers to the country’s drug wars by examining the life of Leonor, a former child soldier in the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. But, this story doesn't begin with Leonor, it commences during Delgado-Kling's childhood, wh...
503: "Colombian food isn't bland, it's subtle."
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - January 30, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week on the Colombia Calling podcast, we discuss Colombian food and observe it through the philosophically tilted lens of expert Juliana Duque. Halfway between the abstract and the tangible, Colombian cuisine is the taste and the colour of abundance. The fertile soils of the American con...
502: Zombies, Magicians, Climate Saviours? Inside Colombia’s Fungi
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - January 23, 2024 15:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, we are exploring the underground and invisible networks of Colombia – along with some of its strangest and least-understood creatures: fungi. We’ll be talking about zombie fungi, shamanic fungi and magic mushrooms, the Wood Wide Web, sunscreen spores, makeup fungi, and eco-warrior ...
501: "The greatest show on earth? A good conversation"
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - January 16, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Emily Hart speaks to Cristina Fuentes La Roche, International Director of the Hay Festival, about arts curation and festival-making in the era of Artificial Intelligence and social media - and bringing one of the world's most successful literary festivals to Colombia for the last two ...
500: Fernando Montaño: Colombia's Billy Elliot
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - January 09, 2024 15:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt's Episode 500 of the Colombia Calling podcast! Celebrate with us as we chat to Colombia's most famous dancer, Fernando Montaño. Fernando Montaño was born in Buenaventura on the Pacific coast of Colombia and at the age of 14 won a scholarship to the National Ballet School of Cuba where h...
499: A Review of Colombia's Politics in 2023
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - December 19, 2023 15:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn the final episode of 2023, the Colombia Calling podcast welcomes back Colombia Risk Analysis' director Sergio Guzmán and Daniel Poveda to discuss their latest report: "Understanding China's Tech Footprint in Colombia - Challenges and Opportunities," and also discuss 2023 in terms of Colombia'...
498: Birdwatching for Peace
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - December 12, 2023 15:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsKidnapped by the FARC guerrillas whilst birding, Diego Calderon may just be Colombia's most famous birder. This week on the Colombia Calling podcast, Calderon sits down with myself and journalist Natalia Malaver, to discuss how birding in Colombia can be a tool for reconciliation, his experie...
497: Unseen Universe – Exploring Colombia’s Sonic Worlds via the Humboldt Institute’s Natural Sound Collection
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - December 05, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Emily Hart takes you on a sonic tour of Colombia, with the Humboldt Institute’s Natural Sound Collection: not only are we going to be hearing about this amazing project, we are going to be listening to some of the more unusual and noteworthy sounds from the collection itself and explo...
496: On the Migrant Trail in Capurgana
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - November 28, 2023 15:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn this week's episode, I reflect on four recent visits to the town of Capurgana on the Caribbean coast of the department of Choco. Capurgana is one of the jump-off points for migrants to begin the infamous and dangerous trek through the Darien jungle to Panama en route to their final destinati...
495: Inside the NarcoFiles
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - November 14, 2023 15:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Emily Hart gets the inside story on the #NarcoFiles - a new investigation into The Global Criminal Order, the largest investigative project of its kind to originate in Latin America. She speaks to OCCRP’s Latin America Editor Nathan Jaccard, who has led and coordinated this project - ...
494: A (Very) Long Time Ago
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - November 07, 2023 15:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEmily Hart takes us (way) back in time this week, to a very different Colombia - one well before the arrival of human beings… but in the process of looking back, we’ll also be looking forwards - to what the future on this planet might look like. We have with us some of the team behind "Hace T...
493: Tales from a FARC combatant: A lost Colombian childhood
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - October 31, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this episode of the Colombia Calling podcast, we get to talk to writer Paula Delgado Kling - after a long absence - about her book, which is now a reality and will be launched on 28 January 2024 (Tune in for further details). "Leonor, the Story of a Lost Childhood," is a heart wrenching ta...
492: Made of Space Dust
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - October 24, 2023 14:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsColombia's leading astronomer, Dr Paola Pinilla, joins us to talk about planet formation, space technology, and diversity in the field of astronomy. We’ll be chatting about the knowledge and inspiration which arrives from outer space, how Paola's childhood in Bogotá led her across the world and ...
491: LaWayra: Authentic Ancestral Medicine Retreat in Colombia
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - October 17, 2023 15:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we welcome back Sam Believ to discuss the growth and success of his Ayahuasca (Yage) retreat in the heart of the Colombian countryside. Since we last spoke, about a year and a half ago, Sam's retreat has gone from success to success, growing and becomi...
490: Better than Cocaine: Learning to grow coffee, and live, in Colombia
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - October 10, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt's time to start dispelling some myths about Colombia and celebrate the work of an author, embedded in the coffee region, and seizing the opportunity to immerse himself in life here with total gusto. For years, Barry Max Wills has been honing his work of non-fiction, "Better than Cocaine: l...
489: A Day in the Life of a Bogotá City Councillor
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - October 03, 2023 14:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn this week's episode, we discuss what it means to be a Bogotá City Councillor. Diego Laserna is a member of the Concejo de Bogotá for the Partido Alianza Verde and is up for re-election on 29 October. Laserna tells us about the day to day work, issues of security and transport in Bogotá, ab...
488: Colombia, the Country of Beauty
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - September 26, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAnd so, along with a new government, comes a new country brand for Colombia and this time it's: Colombia, the Country of Beauty or in Spanish: Colombia, El País de la Belleza. Bruce McLean of BNBColombia Tours joins us this week to discuss this new advertising campaign for Colombia and to sha...
487: Capturing the Traffickers in Colombia
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - September 19, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThis week, Tyler Schwab, director and founder of Libertas International, joins us to discuss the ongoing and nefarious practice of child exploitation in Colombia. With investigations in all major Colombian cities, but focused principally in Medellín, Libertas International works hand in hand ...
486: Local Elections in Colombia 2023: A Referendum on Petro's Government
Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia - September 12, 2023 14:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsColombians go to the urns once again in national elections on 29 October 2023 and so, what better occasion to invite friend to the Colombia Calling podcast, Sergio Guzman, Director of Colombia Risk Analysis to explain some of the key issues and trends taking place. We try and keep this conver...
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