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2 years

What is Colombia’s obsession with photocopying everything at 150%? This could be a PhD thesis.

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Really moving result so far. I feel genuine hope for the first time in years. 🇨🇴

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Francisco Javier Vera // Greta Thunberg Francisco (Colombian) has been threatened to death for trying to stand up for nature. Greta (Swedish) has been applauded world over. I don't think I have to say more than that.

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Did Karen Abudinen get a job at Bancolombia?

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Dear Petro @petrogustavo , You can stay in my house in England until you’ve won the election. The weather isn’t the best but you can make campaign videos from Eastbourne and I’m sure no one will mind all things considered. STAY SAFE 🫂 Love Emma xx

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Should be great but to be a Silicon Valley you really need reliable internet... I'm afraid most of Colombia does not have reliable internet, lighting, water or even electricity.

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Pero Señor Bancolombia, ¿Dónde está la plata mía?

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Disturbed by the president's use of a word I've never heard in Spanish before - "desadaptados" - (the 'non-adapted'?!) to describe protestors in Colombia. This dehumanizing language doesn't bode well for any prospect of compassionate dialogue. No one should 'adapt' to violence.

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Why is Colombian Twitter discussing 'how much money they would spend on a first date'? I've never heard of any topic so hideously vulgar.

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2 years

JK Rowling is paisa.

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@RealBenSibley This is where I draw the line. I don't even like Rolos.

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Did my best. As you all know I am not technical… jajaja

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3 years

Call me a vandal but the lack of basic infrastructure might be just one of the reasons why people are losing their shit in Colombia...

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Trocha que comunica a los departamentos del Meta y Vichada es un dolor de cabeza para los transportadores. Se tardan hasta dos semanas en recorrerla -

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3 years

O no. He's back in the safari suit. Again.

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2 years

For every person who says they'll leave Colombia if Petro wins there are thousands who had to leave Colombia because of who has been winning for decades.

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Colombia seems to be weirdly disappointed that Petro doesn’t travel by mule.

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Postgraduate education in Colombia is impossibly expensive for most.

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What's Colombia's obsession with parking in reverse? Someone told me it was historic in case of bomb scares but I'm not sure if that's true.

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Probably also because almost nobody outside of Colombia recognises him and in England politicians are not surrounded by the army 24/7

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Caminando tranquilo y libre por las calles de Londres @JuanManSantos un hombre que no necesita un ejército para que lo cuide.

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One thing I don't miss about Christmas in Colombia (which starts in October and ends in April) are those horrific whiney songs of small children singing out of tune that get played everywhere.

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1 year

Still better than people disappearing though, isn’t it?

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1 year

Es tan tan tan ordinaria

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3 years

Meet the UK’s newest Colombian immigrant - my dog has arrived from Rural Colombia at last xx 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 💗

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Polo Polo is a basically a case study in identification with the aggressor

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“De desigualdad nadie se ha muerto” No es necesario indignarse, solo aprovechémoslo para reír 🤣🤣🤣

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3 years

Acabo de encontrar 70 mil COP en el bolsillo de mis jeans y no estoy en Colombia. La vida es tan injusta.

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The photo that says it all when it comes to the peace accord's implementation in Colombia. The UN's Secretary General @antonioguterres and Colombia's current president @IvanDuque ... Yikes.

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2 years

Twitter de Colombia be like:

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Enamorase de Colombia es tan fácil pero el desamor tan duro...

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I feel like Colombia has made more progress in a week than it made in the last 200 years since independence.

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How it started // How it’s ending

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Rural colombia and Bogotá are not the same country.

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I didn’t know Peñalosa had also governed Rocinha

Carlos Mario Ferrer

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EL ÚLTIMO ÁRBOL en Rocinha (Brasil) Impresionante!

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A new Colombian governmental TV show called Prevention and House Arrest.

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tu novio; el que piensa que Putin es decolonial y antiimperialista jaja

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@AlbertHorace198 Friends stopping benefits

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Don’t fuck this up Petro. Porfa.

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This could be the moment to open my ‘aristocratic take on the posada’ British guesthouse for Colombian guests only. It will be Anglo-Colombian which means sarcasm, jabón Rey in the bathroom and a flask of Ron de Caldas beside the coffee machine in every room. Bandeja breakfasts.

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2 years

#LO ÚLTIMO | Reino Unido elimina exigencia de la visa de turismo para los visitantes colombianos, anuncia el presidente Gustavo Petro. Más en

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The Colombian opposition is so weak that all they do is criticise female ministers and politicians’ wives and girlfriends dancing. Super pathetic.

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Unpopular opinion: Petro's presidency has become kind of dull.

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3 years

My analysis of the current political crisis in Colombia. (Please do share your comments, discussions, and retweet. Thank you.)

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Colombia’s obsession with the USA above its own sovereignty is detestable

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2 years

Things Petro should have done: - swam to New York from the Darien - Come up with a replacement for petroleum before he took a vehicle powered by centuries of alchemy under the earth - Not worn shoes costing more than 30mil COP+IVA - Slurped sopa de pescado at the ONU gracelessly

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I’d rather buy a Proust-long collection of books about quadratic equations and read them in ancient hieroglyphs

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2 years

👏 Thank you for having the güevas

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Mi posición de cara a la segunda vuelta presidencial en defensa de la democracia, las ideas liberales y el cambio social:

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@EnriquePenalosa This is just the overground railway near London Bridge 🙄

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The view from the car when you drive out of El Centro de Medellin the night after that party you regret attending where you had to stay the night because it was too dangerous to leave before 7am.

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I try to watch every interview I can with Francia @FranciaMarquezM and despite knowing how classist and racist the context in which she finds herself is I am continually astounded by the way she is so consistently smugly, resentfully and rudely addressed by sooo many journalists.

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Actually Fajardo, you inspired a lot of disappointment in a lot of people four years ago.

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Bogotá voice notes are almost always a seriously delivered message but with salsa and violent honking in the background

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3 years

What happened to love? You know, where the $COP didn't matter? W"ho cares how much money either person has or doesn't have? I can't stand people that talk about money all the time. "How much was it? Where did you get it?" It's vile. They are totting up the bill with their eyes.

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Full respect to @FranciaMarquezM for standing up bravely against the endemic systemic 15th century Casta based racism in Colombia.

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Hice meme

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The Colombian currency of the COP is so devalued against the GBP that I paid for something in the UK with COP, returned it today because it was the wrong item, and when I got the refund in GBP I made a profit.

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2 years

Stop the killings of social leaders in Colombia. Vote for peace. Vote for Petro and Francia.

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Without doubt this 'paro' in Colombia has exposed the brutal shadow of the Colombian state in such a way that only someone with a dissociative illness can negatively hallucinate away its true nature.

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3 years

Brexiteers are basically the Uribistas of the UK.

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3 years

When I make mistakes in Spanish I'm not ashamed. I try my best. It's not easy to learn to speak another language well. I see people criticize Spanish and English native speakers on Twitter and it's silly: it's a brave milestone to even try to express yourself in another language.

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Colombians who also have a European life are hilarious; they can seem so European until the Colombianness kicks in all of a sudden and then they are 150% Colombian. It's wild.

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When will Colombia's government realize that state presence isn't the same thing as armed police and military presence?

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I don't want to exaggerate but the Colombian election literally feels like a battle between good and evil

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What’s he gonna do, send in the esmad?

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3 years

I'm English and so I write in English. There is nothing colonial about my writing in my native language to express complex ideas clearly. I am actually quite tired of being told that in order to write about Colombia you must write in Spanish. BTW the Spanish were the coloniser...

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@emmalouisejay Mija, estoy de acuerdo. Pero hacer crítica cultural en inglés sobre Colombia dirigida a un lector hispanohablante y sobre todo colombiano también feels very colonial to me.

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Talking about race in Colombia is very controversial in my experience. As an immigrant with pale skin but ambiguous ancestry all I will say is the stock phrase that "there's no race issues here because we're all mestizxs" I feel brushes a lot of heavy colonial shit under the rug.

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Where are you at with the Colombian elections, emotional state wise? I’m definitely at 9 although there is a hint of 1.

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So assimilated to Colombia that I even hate gringos JAJAJAJAJAJAJA

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Watching Petro speak about agrarian reform and pensions that would confer basic dignity to Colombians makes me seriously question how anyone can have the amount of patience he has. He relentlessly tries to keep on arguing for decency and then people vote for idiots like Rodolfo.

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My thoughts and prayers are with Popayán, a gloriously beautiful and historically important city in Colombia where the people deserve better than this brutal, callous and heartless violence.

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My father is so sweet that he saved a cutting about Luis Diaz for me and even highlighted bits for me 💕 ⚽️

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Colombian dog in the UK visiting the monastery

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It feels like Claudia López has been mayor of Bogotá for six billion years.

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157,451.32 peso colombiano for 9 white arepas JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

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Whatever comes next in Colombia’s story, I will treasure forever this moment of hope watching Petro and Francia on my phone in the dark my pillow wet with tears. They both really earned the right to govern and the opportunity to try and bring peace at last to Colombia querida. 🕊

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Petro & Francia: "We want to bring peace, social justice, pensions, dignity for the hungry, education for all, human rights, the politics of love, an end to war, implement capitalism and heal the economy, no more disappeared persons..." Claudia Gurisatti: "What hate speech!"

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This thesis plagiarism scandal in Colombia is a metaphor for so many issues; lying, stealing, pretending to know things you don’t, the veneer of prestige, denying the truth, a sense of entitlement to a position without the skills to merit the appointment… All in all depressing.

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Cold. Missing Colombia. Need chicken soup with banana in it.

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Cuando fuiste a Homecenter para comprar unos bombillos y te preguntan “quieres abrir una cuenta con Banco Falabella?”

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Bolsonaro fans are so moronic and uncreative that they replicate Trump supporters jajajajaja

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3 years

Fact of the day:

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I don't understand what happened in Bogotá yesterday but I still think exorcism is what the country needs not just political interventions. There is something karmic repeating itself over and over, so much violence, so much racism, so many ghosts and fossils of blood and tears.

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Leave Sofia Petro alone FFS. One of my best friends is the child of a Colombian politician and their life has been sheer hell. No privacy, constant death threats and a life living on the edge with army around you even at dinner times. Leave these poor people alone. Let them be.

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Emma-Louise Jay

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I want to express deep concern for the Antioquian forest engineer Andrés Camilo Peláez who has been missing since April 2022 in Colombia. He had worked with local populations on projects connected to Hidroituango and was last seen in San Andrés de Cuerquia. Praying he is safe 🙏.

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From Colombia to Eastbourne with love 💗

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If you haven't lived closely with the upper class in Colombia you don't know the things they say behind closed doors.

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The COP is in the #SotanosDelInfierno

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Mood

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Colombia has been internationally unmasked

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Some serious psychological rehabilitation is needed in Colombia. Something has gone seriously wrong over centuries whereby the value of life has been degraded and superseded by the 'value' of mining money and plots of land.

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3 years

A very jet lagged Colombian dog who just managed his first English village walk. Bravo 💕

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Memes aside I am terrified for Colombia if Rodolfo is elected.

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Ñ is so much cooler than N

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People in Colombia against expropriation who haven't owned anything in 13 generations hahahahaha

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The radical ‘hardcore’ communist policies continue…

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Petro nos invitó a tener Sexo…. Ese es mi presidente

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As someone said to me yesterday, in Europe Petro wouldn’t even be considered left wing lol

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I confess I was worried that with Petro as president we’d lack moments of absurdity and humour for 4 years, be meme-less and die of living in our deliciousness but Petro asking Vicky Dávila in all seriousness if she had read Plato has put my mind at rest.

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The Colombian police are now posting pictures of themselves cuddling cheetah cubs with French captions. There are no words.

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