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Tormentas

My last day in Medellin was quite wonderful. It was a Saturday, classes were over, and my day was free, except of course, for the volunteer English teaching gig I had accepted. I set off in the morning, thinking that perhaps I would take the Metro to the Parque Explora, a science park that people in Medellin are quite proud of. But I caught a bus that took me to El Centro rather than to the Metro […]

Tragedia en Space

I just learned, to my shock, that this happened just up the hill from where I was staying, on the last night I was in Medellin: Click for the full story in El Colombiano At 8:20 pm, when the collapse occurred, I was sitting in an internet cafe near Doña E’s apartment. I didn’t hear a thing, and there were no interruptions in power at the cafe. When I returned home at 9 p.m., Doña E seemed […]

Site of the murder-suicide, as seen from the breakfast table