By Rommel H. Ojeda Colombia’s colors swept through Jackson Heights last night as fans, clad in yellow, red and blue, packed the streets to watch the national team play against Uruguay in a high-stakes game to advance to the Copa América finals. With 10,468 residents born in Colombia, Little Colombia in Jackson Heights, spanning from […]
Bogota, Colombia; November 22, 2021: Francia Marquez Mina, Afro-descendant woman, Colombian presidential candidate, environmental activist and feminist from “Soy porque somos” social movement. (Shutterstock) By Manuel Rueda and Astrid Suarez, LA Times As Colombia’s voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new president, they also carved out another milestone […]
Photo: ProColombia’s Vice President of Tourism, Gilberto Salcedo Rivero & Vice President of the Hispanic American International Chamber of Commerce, Mariana Henriquez IQ Inc, publishers of Caribbean American Weekly, The Immigrant’s Journal, and Workers’ World Today, was honored to have been invited by ProColombia, the government entity responsible for promoting exports, tourism, and foreign investment, […]