Colombians, immigrants most educated in the United States.

Colombians, immigrants most educated in the United States.

A study made in May 2011 confirms that Colombian immigrants have the highest level of education among all those from the Western Hemisphere.

A 32.1% of Colombians over age 25 who enter the United States have a college degree, followed by Brazil and Peru 30.6%, 26.0%.

The United States has 35.2 million people born abroad, the study said. Of that total, between 8 and 10 million are illegal, and about a million or more that have not been counted.

Mexico remains being the country of origin of most new immigrants, followed by East Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Central and South America, according to the study of CIS.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Colombian migrants had an average schooling of all ages, from 13.3 years against 13.2 for the other South American countries.

Also according to the study of CIS in terms of graduation rates among immigrants aged 25 to 60 years followed by Colombia, Brazil and Peru. In conclusion, the Colombians still being rated as the immigrants that are the most well prepared in the educational field.

Shakira has released the video for the song 'Rabid' in Spanish

Shakira has released the video for the song 'Rabid' in Spanish

The Colombian/Barranquillera singer interprets this version with the rapper Dominican Dizzee Rascal.

This video shows the usual Shakira with a very different look from the blond hair that keeps the Colombian diva for several years. Shakira surprised his fans in this video by having a new color in her hair and also with short hair. In the video you can see the pop star in the middle of a party and also performing acrobatic dance moves. 'Rabid', is a song that is now available on iTunes and it seems to become the song of the summer. This is the latest single from the album 'The sun rises', with which the artist Barranquilla has reached number one in over ten countries. The video was filmed in Barcelona last April 24 and directed by photographer Jaume de la Iguana

Bogota ready for Rock at the Park 2011

June 30 2011

The 17 version of the festival will take place July first through July 4.

More than 90 bands, four stages instead of two, and an effort to recognize the current level of national rock are the main stakes for version 17 of the Rock at the park Festival, in the Media Torta in Bogotá, and the second at Parque Simón Bolívar.

There will be three platforms that pays tribute to the environment: Arco, Bio and Eco. The entry is free, anyone can come. The programming of the festival promises intense days of metal, reggae, electro rock and other tracks in the rock culture in Bogota. In addition to the concert area, there will be recreational areas and markets rock culture.

This is the first festival organized by the District Institute of the Arts of Bogota, which is a major challenge for the city.

Some of the recommendations in this festival are The New York band Fischerspooner that creates electronic music with rock ingredients and Cultura Profetica a group of reggae from Puerto Rico.

Colombia is so much more than drug trafficking

I’m from Colombia and I’m very proud of my country. Colombia is so much more than violence and drug trafficking. I'm tired of every time I step by the United States, either visit or transit, just because I come from Colombia or because I have a Colombian passport I am treated as if I had a drug load.

For no reason, especially in the United States Immigration, retain passports, frisk bags and no matter if you have connecting flights to other countries, they retain you for hours just to check you are not bringing any type of drug.

I missed a connecting flight to Chicago and almost missed a connecting flight to Colombia. They do not explain anything, do not care if one has to pay tickets and also they treat you like a criminal. They are despots in their treatment and did not even have the decency to give priority to passengers who have connecting flights.

Someone has to stop the stigma that unfortunately we carry through the action of a few who are alive today and people need to be more intelligent when it comes to Colombian history. There is so much beauty in Colombia that people don’t even know and they just marked us with a violence and drug tag.

The Colombian are mostly good people, people that want to be happy, that enjoy life and that are friendly and kind towards anyone. I hope some day people can gain more knowledge about my country and realize how wrong they are.

Violence in Colombia

Violence in Colombia might be considered as a phenomenon that historically has caused more damage and psychological, social, economic and physical consequences. I'm talking about violence in Colombia, which has permeated all layers of society, because it has affected our most representative institutions or organizations. First begin by making a brief history of violence in Colombia and it is therefore necessary to clarify that it is recurrent, and that on several occasions and different episodes has been political, armed forces conflict and drug trafficking. The first episode of violence was the war of 1,000 days, between conservatives and liberals, called the Patria Boba, between 1899-1902,then came the slaughter of banana in 1928, followed conflict stage for change of government in 1930 Enrique Olaya Herrera and Mariano Ospina Perez in 1946, after the death of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan on April 9, 1948. This was the first wave of violence by the traditional parties then the second wave of violence came from 1954 to 1958 when the guerrilla was formated, a group of ravages of drug trafficking from the 80's. Years later there was a group that was created called Paramilitares, they were created with the purpose to defend all the poor people that was being affected by la Guerrilla. Sooner Paramilitares forgot their ideals and started killing, kidnapping and drug trafficking began to be their number one source of economy.

To analyze the violence in Colombia might take us years to understand, but for now the truth is that Colombia has been affected by violence since long time ago and it started with group of rebels who wanted to create justice between the social classes but then they forgot their ideals and started to worry more about gaining more power and money.

Fashion in Colombia

Between January and June were spent on Colombian apparel (clothing and shoes), a total of 6.9 billion pesos, which would be something close to what the government gives annually to the Social Security Institute to pay the pensions of their retirees (8.5 billion).

As explained by Juan Diego Becerra, director of analysis of Radda the in Colombia the fashionable shopping boom is due because several reasons.

An analysis of the Centre reports that between January and June, the price adjustment of footwear and clothing was only 0.22 percent. Similarly, there are many more imports.

The citizens were the biggest spenders on fashion, followed by the inhabitants of Medellin and Cali.

Colombians spent money on clothes and shoes more for fun than necessity. It seems that Colombians care for their image more than they care for their finances.

Arizona Fire

It’s finally summer, but in Arizona the heat of summer can become a nightmare. Last weeks a fire in Arizona forced the evacuation of 11,000 people in the State.

This is the second largest fire in Arizona history and cover more than 157,000 acres. The fire has damaged an area that is larger than the area of the city of New York and Chicago together and the worst is that it can continue to grow.

The Captain Jim Wilkins, an U.S. fire service officer, has said: “ It is too early to know how many hundreds of homes in the city have been lost.”

More than 2,500 firefighters have been working in trying to extinguish the fire that began two weeks ago.

The flames happened by the White Mountains and have destroyed at least 11 other structures and damaged 588 more structures. The smoke was extended even to the New Mexico border where authorities are alert of the process of the flames in the State.

Brenyn Lohmoelder a spokesman of the fire service Reuters stated that “ The fire was very large and intense and that they are trying their best to control it.”

The fire has expanded so quickly that smoke have also been sighted in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.