Jezebel: Colombia

Colombian Company Uses Butterflies To Change Women's Lives

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:50:00 EST

A valley in Palmira, Colombia, which was once war-torn and filled with little economic opportunity has been transformed by two women, Patricia Restrepo and her daughter Vanessa. Ten years ago, the women started a butterfly export business called Alas de Colombia after they noticed that there was a growing demand for butterflies at places like nature museums. More »

Colombian National Soccer Coach Sorry For Punching Female Fan In The Face

Irin Carmon — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:35:42 EDT

Colombia is an uproar over news that its national soccer coach, Hernán Darío Gómez, known as El Bolillo, punched a female fan in the face late on Saturday. As of this morning, he has lost his position as Colombia's head coach for the next World Cup. More »

Women Withhold Sex Until Road Is Fixed

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:49:00 EDT

Have you ever used sex as a tool to get your boyfriend or partner to bend to your will? Have you ever performed a sex act as a reward for a desired behavior or series of behaviors? How about withheld it in response to bad behavior in hopes that the bad behavior would not occur in the future? How about withheld it until the damn sink gets fixed? More »

Gabriel García Márquez Shakes It To Shakira

Sadie Stein — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:45:00 EST

! Here the legendary scribe sharing his unique dancing with the world. More »

Birth Control Wars: Colombia 1, United States 0

Irin Carmon — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:36:00 EST

Your birth control is free! If you live in Colombia. More »

A Freeze Frame Of The Colombian Runway

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:00 EDT

[Medellin, July 28. A model wears a creation from the Colombian fashion brand Maaji at the Colombia Moda fashion show. Image via AP]

Colombian Runway Is Full Of Precious Metals

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:00 EDT

[Medellin, July 27. A model wears a creation from the Colombian fashion brand Agua Bendita at the Colombia Moda fashion show in Medellin, Colombia. Image via AP]

Top Gear

Anna Holmes — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:10:00 EDT

[Bogota, March 29. Image via Getty]

Jumping Through Hoops

Anna Holmes — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:00 EDT

[Medellin, March 29. Image via Getty]

Beach, Please

Anna Holmes — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:10:00 EDT

[Medellin, March 25. Image via Getty]

Moment Of Reflection

Anna Holmes — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:10:00 EDT

[Medellin, March 22. Image via Getty]

Official Platform

Anna Holmes — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:10:00 EDT

[Medellin, March 21. Image via Getty]

Woman Declared Dead Moves Arm At Funeral Home

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:45:00 EST

A funeral home employee was about to inject a Colombian woman with embalming fluid when he saw her right arm move. Doctors determined that while she'd been declared dead, her vital signs had just dropped to undetectable levels. [AP] More »

All Creatures Great & Small

Anna Holmes — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:10:00 EST

[Evigado, Colombia; February 16. Image via Getty]

The Lion In Summer

Anna Holmes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:10:00 EST

[Medellin, Colombia; December 7. Image via Getty]

Heavenly Creatures

Anna Holmes — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:10:00 EST

[Medellín, December 2. Image via Getty]

Strike A Pose

Anna Holmes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:10:00 EDT

[Medellín, October 19. Image via Getty]

Table Manners

Anna Holmes — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Cali, Colombia; October 15. Image via Getty]

It Gives You Wings

Anna Holmes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:10:00 EDT

[Cali, Colombia; October 4. Image via Getty]

Medellín Of Honor

Anna Holmes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:10:00 EDT

[Medellin, September 2. Image via Getty]

Caught In The Crossfire

Anna Holmes — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Bogota, September 1. Image via Getty]

Sarah Palin Meets The Leader Of A Foreign Country

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:10:00 EDT

Golden Girls: Leidy Solis

Anna Holmes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:50:00 EDT

But Doesn't The Bush Administration Care About The Nation's Heroin Addicts?

Moe — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Society has a drug problem, if numbers like these are any indication (and they are). I mean, don't get me wrong, drugs are an excellent way for consumers to waste time, but add to that the snitch-killing and the crop dusting and the weapons stockpiling and the car detailing and wiretapping and the condom swallowing and the fact that determined junkies will figure out how to fatally overdose on legal cancer drugs anyway and you start to think, hey now let's just call this a day, DEA. But is that why the Bush Administration, according to yesterday's Times Magazine, appears to have given up on the Drug War in Afghanistan? Or is it just like, what the fuck else are they going to grow there? That and how Gabriel Garcia Marquez's plan to eradicate the Colombian coke trade didn't work out so well, plus sundry other dour observations and musings on the meaninglessness of with me and Megan after the jump. More »

Colombian Ex-Presidential Candidate Ingrid Betancourt Rescued From Revolutionaries

Jessica G. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:30:00 EDT

After six years being held hostage in the Colombian jungle, former Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, along with fourteen other captives, was rescued by men disguised as Colombian leftist commandos. Betancourt had originally been taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) — described by the Times as "a Marxist inspired insurgency," — when she was campaigning for President as the Green Party anti-corruption candidate in 2002. She has a storied past which includes time spent as a beauty queen and dual French and Colombian citizenship because of her first marriage to a diplomat. She wrote an autobiography, Storm in my Heart, which was a best-seller in France and according to the Telegraph, "some reviewers described her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and her election campaign was followed closely in the [French] media." More »

Immigration Official Makes Colombian Woman Do Oral For Green Card

Jessica G. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Get a load of this guy. His name is Isaac Baichu, and he's an immigration official who told a 21-year-old Colombian woman last December that he would not get her a green card unless she gave him a blowjob. Oh, and some sex. She just had to do it with him "one or two times," he told her. "That's all. You get your green card. You won't have to see me anymore." Well the Colombian miss, whose name is not being released by authorities because she is the victim of a sex crime, was savvy: she recorded the Baichu's blackmailing her on her cell phone. The New York Times has the recording on their website, and you can hear Baichu's pleading voice for yourself; it gives one a nauseous, vaguely anxious feeling, not unlike sitting on a turbulent plane. In the original tape, there is a minute-long silence, and according to the Times, that's when the woman " yielded to his demand [for oral sex] out of fear that he would use his authority against her." More »

Hillary Clinton Never Should Have Granted That Interview To US Weekly, Camille Paglia Tells US Weekly

Moe — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:30:33 EST

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On the eve before the Texas/Ohio primaries that could end the Hillary Clinton candidacy, Camille Paglia decided to give an exclusive interview to...US Weekly. In which: she praises Barack Obama for his superior kung fu skills and rails against Hillary for hiring a team "so self-infatuated with their own clever superiority, that in fact they're quite transparent," and also choosing to appear in US Weekly. [US Weekly]