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BAM: 'Embrace Of The Serpent' AD scoops top prize

Edit Screen Daily 18 Jul 2016
Claudia Pedraza’s debut feature scooped the $20,000 top prize at the Bogotá Audiovisual Market ... With a budget of $490,000 (€443,000), the film will be shot next year in La Guajira desert in Colombia, the same location where Ciro Guerra is planning to shoot Pájaros De Verano, his next feature following the success of Embrace Of The Serpent, which won at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2015 and went on to earn an Oscar nomination ... ....

Star of Cuban folk music and mother of Cuban singer Albita dies

Edit Topix 15 Jul 2016
Minerva "Mima" Herrera, the mother of Cuban singer Albita Rodrguez, died of a heart attack in her Miami home. The "guajira" was born in the Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus in 1929 ... ....

Colombia working towards water solutions to slake La Guarija's thirst

Edit BN Americas 14 Jul 2016
The extra funds and collaborative projects are aimed at tackling a serious drought faced by communities in arid La Guajira department with new deep water wells, well support systems and a pilot project for implementation of an aqueduct ...continue reading ... ....

Colombia aiming high for Rio 2016 as squad announced (World Rugby)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jul 2016
(Source. World Rugby). Colombia are the latest nation to reveal the 12 women's players who will create history as the first rugby sevens Olympians at Rio 2016 ... There are nine players in the squad from Medellín, the country's rugby hotbed, two from capital city Bogotá and Katherinne Medina, from the northern region of La Guajira, who will become the first sportsperson from that area to go to an Olympic Games ... Enjoyment and clear target....

Faculty/Staff Accomplishments and News (NYIT - New York Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Jul 2016
(Source ... Photo ... Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D ... Hsu was invited by the University of La Guajira, Riohacha, Colombia, to give a talk on 'Trends and Issues of ICTs in Teacher Education.' She also worked with professors and teachers on research design for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) integration in both regular and Wayuu indigenous communities. Wayuu is a Native American ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia....

Los Hacheros

Edit National Public Radio 30 Jun 2016
July 5, 20163.31 PM ET. by Felix Contreras. Sometimes it's necessary to get back to basics ... Bambulaye is available now. (iTunes) (Amazon). Set List "Baila Con Los Hacheros" "Papote's Guajira" "Bambulaye". Credits. Producers ... ....

GOLDCORP'S McPherson joins MX Gold as President and COO

Edit Stockhouse 28 Jun 2016
... Peru; Mine Manager of Barrick Gold’s Alto Chicama project in northern Peru; Chief operating officer for Starcore International Mines, San Martin Mine in Mexico; Mine manager at XStrata Copper’s Alumbrera Mine in northern Argentina; and Project/Mine Manager, Morrison Knudson Venezuela at their Carbones de la Guajira coal mine in Venezuela.  Mr....

Adventist humanitarians deliever 52 tons of aid to drought-stricken region of Colombia (Seventh-day Adventist Church)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jun 2016
Volunteers load up to distribute food in La Guajira ... The drought in La Guajira has led to the deaths of 29 children this year ... La Guajira, Colombia ... The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia recently delivered 52 tons of humanitarian aid in La Guajira-one of the most remote regions in the northeastern part of Colombia ... In September of 2014, ADRA Colombia made its first visit to aid hundreds of families in Guajira....

AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Salah Zuleta: "A true politician seeks the common good"

Edit Topix 23 Jun 2016
An invitation to the politicians of the department of La Guajira, so that in these times of crisis they unite and propose a single candidate for the upcoming elections, after the cancellation of the previous elections, comes from the Bishop of the diocese of Riohacha , His Exc. Mgr. Hector Ignacio Salah Zuleta ... ....

Science, Technology and Innovation Factor is Increasingly Important in Regional Competitiveness in Colombia (ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
The cities that rank lower are Caqueta (Florencia), La Guajira (Riohacha) and Arauca; while the stragglers are Choco (Quibdo) and the geographically isolated and institutionally fragile Amazonian departments (Amazonas, Putumayo, Guaviare, Vichada, Guainia and Vaupes), which are immersed in a mostly rural context and have considerable jungle areas....

Anthropology celebrates a year of big wins for grad students May 25, 2016 (Vanderbilt University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016
(Source. Vanderbilt University). by Liz Entman . May. 25, 2016, 10.20 AM . Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter ». Keitlyn Alcantara is among five Ph.D ... (Vanderbilt University). Five Ph.D ... She will interview residents of La Guajira displaced by the Cerrejón coal mine, as well as mine officials and government representatives, to better understand how these marginalized communities work to influence corporate policy....

Valorcon launches La Guajira highway works

Edit BN Americas 17 May 2016
The project in the Colombian department should take 32 months ...continue reading ... ....

Buena Vista Social Club Return Home for Historic Cuba Show

Edit Rollingstone 16 May 2016
Sidebar. Relive Rolling Stones' Historic Cuba Visit With Live Footage » ... Saturday's concert was many things. a joyous victory lap; a mournful group eulogy; an act of historical preservation (a new documentary on the group is set for release next year); a nostalgia trip of traditional Cuban styles like son, mambo, guajira and bolero ... It would be the first of six tributes to deceased members ... While Cuba-U.S ... Set List.....
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