Blogs in February 2020

Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle 23rd February 2020

Ingrid Betancourt’s story – her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience – has captured the world’s imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she...

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold 23rd February 2020

‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. ‘On the day...

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No One Writes to the Colonel 23rd February 2020

‘The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left’ Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty...

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A King’s Ransom 23rd February 2020

Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been...

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A Place in the World 23rd February 2020

Alicia, a young American expat, marries Colombian Jorge Carvallo and they settle on his family’s remote coffee finca (farm) in the Andes. Educated as a biologist, she revels in the surrounding cloud-forest. However, following an idyllic year, calamities strike...

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