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I did not come to flirt, but only to buy lemons
Photo licensed under CC0 Everyday life experiences can be challenging for una mujer diversa (person of diverse womanhood), and even grocery shopping can become complicated. I experience toxic attitudes, ranging from leering to physical aggressions. And I keep asking myself why? What did I do that was so bad to be treated this way? The same behaviors keep repeating over and over again, with the bus driver, the building security guard, or the grocery store owner. As an example, this is what happens almost every time I go out to buy lemons. I say hello, but I don't get back a greeting; I face hos...
Global Voices
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Colombia, divided and facing profound change in upcoming presidential elections
Photo by Leon Hernandez/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Colombia will choose its new president and vice president in elections on Sunday, June 19 and, unlike in previous years, there is an unprecedented political polarization and a real possibility that left-wing candidates, which have never been in power before, will win. On May 29, the results of the first round of the presidential elections showed that no candidate passed the bar of 50 percent plus one vote needed to win outright. Consequently, a second round will be held between presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Má...
Global Voices
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Panama: deux femmes arrêtées à l'aéroport portant des "narcoperruques"
Panama (AFP) - Deux Colombiennes ont été arrêtées vendredi à l'aéroport international de Tocumen, au Panama, alors qu'elles tentaient de se rendre en Espagne avec de la cocaïne dissimulée sous des perruques, a indiqué le bureau du procureur général du pays d'Amérique centrale. La procureure antidrogue panaméenne Xiomara Rodriguez avait initialement signalé l'arrestation d'une Colombienne qui se trouvait sur un vol vers Madrid. Cette première détenue a été abordée par la police à l'aéroport après que sa coiffure eut éveillé les soupçons. Après un test au scanner, les agents ont pu constater que...
AFP (Français)
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Ex-Cali Cartel boss 'Chess Player' dies in US prison
Washington (AFP) - Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the notorious former leader of Colombia's drug trafficking Cali Cartel, died in a US prison at the age of 83, his lawyer said Wednesday. "We are saddened for the passing of Gilberto yesterday evening," said David Oscar Markus in an email, without specifying the cause of death. Nicknamed "The Chess Player," Rodriguez Orejuela was considered to be one of the world's biggest drug lords following the 1993 death of Pablo Escobar, the leader of the rival Medellin Cartel. Along with his younger brother Miguel -- who is also detained in the United States...
AFP
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Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam drummers slam ‘sensationalized’ Rolling Stone article about late Taylor Hawkins
The friends of late Foo Fighters drummer and singer Taylor Hawkins aren’t pleased with the way he’s been memorialized by Rolling Stone. Drummers Chad Smith, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Matt Cameron, of Pearl Jam, took to Instagram Wednesday to critique the magazine’s article published Monday, entitled, “Inside Taylor Hawkins’ Final Days as a Foo Fighter.” The band, which Hawkins had joined as drummer in 1997, announced his death in late March. The 50-year-old was found dead in a Bogota, Colombia, hotel. Though a cause of death has yet to be released, local authorities reported that drugs...
New York Daily News
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Haunting Surfside mystery — ID of woman buried alive in ruins for hours — may be solved
MIAMI — Five hours after Champlain Towers South collapsed early in the morning on June 24, 2021, rescue dogs picked up the scent of a live victim pinned underneath the parking garage. Rescuers made out the voice of a woman, but the voice was so faint that whispers among the crew or movement in the standing water in which the crew worked would blot out the sound of the voice. But from the faint responses, rescuers believed the woman said that she was staying at the Surfside condominium tower with her parents. They heard her say she was trapped between a mattress or a wall, or between two mattre...
Miami Herald
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Podcast: The state of press freedom
Image courtesy Ameya Nagarajan This week, we did something different. As part of our special coverage on press freedom, we interviewed five people about press freedom in their countries to get a sense of what are the challenges the media face in different parts of the world. We spoke to Fernanda Jaramillo, an independent journalist from Colombia, Raksha Kumar, a journalist and researcher from India, Wijayanto, a press freedom researcher from Indonesia, Vivian Wu, veteran Chinese journalist, and Jovana Presic, a journalist with a fact-checking organisation in Serbia. The Global Voices Podcast b...
Global Voices
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Présidentielle en Colombie: le spectre de l'assassinat politique
By Lina VANEGAS Bogota (AFP) - A chaque sortie publique du favori de la présidentielle du 29 mai en Colombie, la scène est saisissante: le candidat de gauche Gustavo Petro est cerné d'une horde de gardes du corps nerveux qui brandissent en quasi-permanence trois imposants boucliers pare-balles. Le spectre d'un assassinat hante la campagne où la gauche a une chance très sérieuse d'arriver au pouvoir pour la première fois dans l'histoire de ce pays, où les balles ont souvent changé tragiquement le cours de la vie politique. Au XXe siècle, cinq candidats à la présidence ont été assassinés par des...
AFP (Français)
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Colombian drug lord 'Otoniel' pleads not guilty in US court
New York (AFP) - One of Colombia's most notorious drug lords pleaded not guilty to cocaine trafficking charges in a New York court Thursday following his extradition to the United States. Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as "Otoniel," did not ask for bail during the arraignment hearing in Brooklyn. The 50-year-old was the leader of Colombia's largest narco-trafficking gang, known as the Gulf Clan. The United States accuses Usuga and the Gulf Clan of illegally bringing at least 73 tons of cocaine into the country between 2003 and 2012. He was "one of the most dangerous, most wanted drug kingpins in t...
AFP
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Colombian drug lord 'Otoniel' pleads not guilty in US court
New York (AFP) - One of Colombia's most notorious drug lords pleaded not guilty to trafficking charges in a New York court Thursday following his extradition to the United States. Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as "Otoniel," did not ask for bail during the arraignment in Brooklyn. The 50-year-old Usuga was the leader of Colombia's largest narco-trafficking gang, known as the Gulf Clan. The United States accuses Usuga and the Gulf Clan of illegally bringing at least 73 tons of cocaine into the country between 2003 and 2012. He was the most-wanted person in Colombia until he was arrested last Octobe...
AFP
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