Garcia Marquez, Drunken Colombian Artists, and 100 Years of Huevonadas! Mural of Gabriel Garcia...
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Silly Rabbit, Trinkets Don’t Replace Hugs
The Impulse to Buy Mementos While Being Away From Home The first few years after my parent’s...
Squeezing the Green Out of the Rainbow
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My Mom Screams and I Know Exactly Why
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Pragmatic Colombian Sex Advice to Scar Teenagers for Life
I was in eighth grade when the Catholic school I went to decided we were ready for sex education....
Pablo Escobar Left Many Problems Behind And 99 Hippos is One of Them
“Did you hear about the hippopotamuses in Colombia?” I love people’s random comments when...
Weed, Cocaine, and Riding a Mule Around the World
Photo by Ashwini Chaudhary(Monty) on Unsplash I was telling someone at work how when I first moved...
Tiny Sticks of Dynamite for Our Pain
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A Gun in the Bum, a Bomb on a Horse and a Colombian Prayer
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