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Geopolitics Society

Profile 360° → Remembering Jaime Garzon, Colombia’s Brave Comic

This coming August will mark 20 years since the death of Jaime Garzón, an unlikely martyr in Colombia’s long-running battles with organized crime, drug trafficking and government corruption. Despite studying law and working in politics, what eventually turned him into one of the country’s most influential figures through the 1990s was his sense of humor. […]

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Future Society

Scootergeddon: Electric Scooters Invade World Cities

Love them or hate them, electric scooters are changing the very ways we think about mobility and transportation in a city.

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Ideas Rue Amelot

When They Mistook Me For A Muslim In Greece

A Colombian-American deals with different misconceptions in different parts of the world. Ask him who he is before you ask him where he’s from.

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Geopolitics OneShot Society

Watch: OneShot — Marco Gualazzini”s Almajiri Boy

An iconic image from Italian photojournalist’s reportage from Chad, which won the World Press Photo award for environmental series.

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LGBTQ Plus Rue Amelot Society

Furia Marica – The Meaning Of ‘Faggot’ And LGBT Rights In Colombia

A nation became so attached to a nasty word that it has lost some of its edge, but not all of it.

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OneShot

OneShot – Gorillas Strike A Pose For Selfie

Looking coooool….This selfie of two park rangers at the Virunga National Park with two female gorillas mimicking human behavior went viral after it was posted on Instagram this week. “Those gorilla gals are always acting cheeky so this was the perfect shot of their true personalities!” said the park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fact that the two gorillas, Ndakazi and Ndeze, were walking upright is apparently not so rare. The cool posing on the other hand may be linked to the fact that the pair were rescued and raised by humans. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/NSYN1WOokic expand=1] […]

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Ideas Rue Amelot

All Greek To Them: How Three Colombians Found Athens In Italy

Three Colombians ended up in Atena Lucana, Italy, instead of Atenas, Greece.

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