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- 471: Mesa Franca: Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2022Mesa Franca needs no introduction to people in Bogotá, but for those considering visiting the Colombia capital, this restaurant, founded by María Paula Amador, Tom Hydzik and Iván Cadena, has gone fro … Read more
- 470: This Wound Full of Fish, the debut novel by Lorena Salazar MassoOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we talk to Annie McDermott, the literary translator of Lorena Salazar Masso's debut novel: This Wound Full of Fish. We hear how McDermott interprets … Read more
- 469: Saving Primates in ColombiaFederico Pardo is a Colombian biologist, photographer and documentary filmmaker in addition to being a National Geographic Explorer, 2020. For the past four years he has been working on a documentary … Read more
- 468: From business start-up to gentleman of leisure in ColombiaOn this week's Colombia Calling podcast we get to chew the fat (cockney rhyming slang for: "chat.") with long-time immigrant to Colombia and friend to the podcast, Eric Tabone. Tabone s … Read more
- 467: Chinese Investment in ColombiaChina’s engagement in Colombia has significantly increased in the past decade, whereas the country has openly embraced a warmer political and economic relationship with the middle kingdom, its politic … Read more
- 466: What's in a name? The Evolution of contemporary Art in Latin America and ColombiaOn this Episode of the Colombia Calling podcast, we address the evolution of Art in Latin America and Colombia and are led through this fascinating subject and its personal and political connotations … Read more
- 465: A History of Coca Prohibition in ColombiaFor decades, coca eradication and substitution, to purportedly stop the cocaine trade at its source, were Colombia’s only policy responses to a plant that had always been part of its culture. These po … Read more
- 464: Black and Foreign in ColombiaWhat inspires a practicing lawyer from St Louis, Missouri to give it all up to move to Cali, Colombia to teach English as a foreign language. Well, this is what Todd Cooley did and we hear about his e … Read more
- 463: Volcanic Activity in Colombia ExplainedOur guest this week is Natalia Pardo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the Universidad de los Andes. Natalia is a geologist at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá), with … Read more
- 462: Empowering women in the Community of La Honda, Medellin, ColombiaAndrea Gonzalez Duarte Van Der Leeuw was born in Bogotá, adopted as a baby and raised in the Netherlands. After finishing her degree in social work at Hanze University in the Netherlands, Andrea trave … Read more
