Colombia

Colombian 'Nuns' Caught Smuggling Four Pounds of Cocaine in Their Habits

The authorities are onto your old cocaine-stuffed-into-coconuts routine. Your drug subs have been getting busted by the Coast Guard at an alarming rate. Even disguising pounds of cocaine as a replica World Cup trophy didn't work out so well last time you tried. So if you're a Colombian cartel boss ... More >>

Quantic, Pedrito Martinez, and Mr. Pauer at the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2012

The cool sea breeze whipped through the North Beach Bandshell on Saturday night as Afro-Latin rhythms bounced off the circular wall of the oceanside, outdoor venue. Colombia's Quantic Sound System and NYC's Pedrito Martinez Group rang in the Heineken Transatlantic Festival's 10th anniversary with c ... More >>

Fidel Castro May Have Photobombed His Way Onto Colombia's 1,000 Peso Bill

There's no denying that the guy behind the Mariel Boatlift and the Cuban Missile Crisis can cook up a damned devious trick when he wants to. But did Fidel Castro really photobomb the Colombian 1,000 peso bill?Colombia has been rumbling this week with the conspiracy theory that a young Castro's face ... More >>

Violence Unseen

Submarines and Cocaine: 56 Members of "Bandas Criminales" Indicted for Trafficking

​More than 50 members of the Colombian "Bandas Criminales" (AKA BACRIM) drug-trafficking organization have been rounded up after a joint operation based out of Miami. It's the biggest bust of the emerging drug-trafficking gang since Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern Di ... More >>

Salsa Legend Joe Arroyo Dead at 55

​Today, Colombia and salsa music lovers around the world are mourning the loss of Joe Arroyo, one of the genre's favorite sons. His wife confirmed on Radio Caracol that the legendary salsero passed away at 7:45 this morning from heart failure.The 55 year old known as "El Joe" had spent the last 29 ... More >>

Five Dumbest Dance Styles of the 21st Century

Tecktonik: Helping Eurotrash not get laid since 2002.​Humanity has come a long way since the Stone Age when we were dancing around fires like deranged sex-crazed monkeys. Or has it?It seems like every new decade's dance styles become more and more bizarre and less and less inhibited. In fact, thes ... More >>

Marijuana-Smuggling Pigeon Busted Outside Colombian Prison

via Sky NewsThe scofflaw pigeon.​When did Colombia's avian population fall into a desperate life of drug running? First, there was Lorenzo the Parrot, who was arrested last fall for acting as a look-out for a weed and weapons stash. Now comes word this morning that Colombian police have detained a ... More >>

Mas Música, Maestro

International Thursdays at Jazid Brings You Hip-Hop Latino, with Ephniko

​So you love International Thursdays at Jazid, brought to you by MiamiAlterlatino.com. You know it, we know it, what's the point in hiding our feelings? The series has been kicking some ass since day one with their weekly jaunts around Latin America, from Brazil to Colombia to Argentina and showca ... More >>

Till Death Do Us Part

This Weekend In Cocaine: Gigantic Narco-Sub, World Cup Made of Coke Seized By Cops

via DEAA 100-foot narco-sub packed with coke, anyone?​Amidst all the fireworks, Budweiser and drunken yells of "America, fuck yeah!" this weekend, our Independence Day festivities turned out to be a busy couple days for the drug that built Miami.Not only did Colombian cops seize a full-size, gold ... More >>

Free Screening of ESPN Documentary About Pablo Escobar and Narco-Soccer June 15

Soccer casualty Andrés Escobar​Two men named Escobar, both born in Medellín, both shot to death. The first was Pablo, the cold-blooded drug lord, mass murderer, and soccer obsessive who reigned over Colombia like a bloated, blood-soaked, black-eyed Komodo dragon. The second was Andrés, a futbol ... More >>

El Pibe Stays True to Fútbol and Colombia

Courtesy HennesseyCarlos Valderrama is rooting for Argentina or Brazil to win World Cup glory​Inside Grove Liquors on SW 32nd Avenue at South Dixie Highway, two leggy, long-haired brunettes in yellow Colombian national soccer team jerseys walk in front of a mound of curly blond hair that is univer ... More >>

Electro Cumbia

Colombia's Bomba Estereo plays at the Heineken Transatlantic Festival this Friday

Latin America's Top Ten Lady Drug Smugglers: An Illustrated Guide

Police are after a former beauty queen who's accused of being the ringleader of a gang of pinups who also work as international drug smugglers. Angie San Clemente Valencia is a bosomy 30-year-old Colombian who's accused of paying her merry band of strumpets $5,000 for carrying pounds of blow from Me ... More >>

Top 5 Really Strange Foods of South America and the Caribbean

via Liz and Dave on TravelpodGuess what.​People to the south of Miami think America's chemical-laden, hormone-injected, infinite shelf-lifed, processed, packaged, industrially produced, lab-tested, factory-farmed food is crazy.But they eat jungle creatures. Now that's weird. Here are our top 5 rea ... More >>

Bachaco Playing UM Thursday, DWNTWN Series Friday

​The members of Bachaco are going to be busy little bees over the next few days. Well, ants maybe. Because, as you know, their name refers to a Brazilian leafcutter ant. Entomology lessons aside, the SoFla-based fusion group is going to be performing live at UM for the Patio Jam tomorrow. Then on ... More >>

Colombian urban fusion act Choc Quib Town makes its Miami debut at Kukaramakara

Jazid and MiamiAlterLatino Bring You ... Parranda Colombiana!

We can't promise the Miss Colombia candidates will be there...but it could happen.​Ever wish you could party in Colombia, but can't leave the country due to the U.S. government revoking your passport some years back for that incident involving tabletops and fishnet stockings at the airport lobby b ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ David Solano

A house-kicking Colombiano.

Old Wives' Tale

The House That Pun Built

Miami welcomes The Awarehouse

Locos Por Juana Arrive Today In L.A. For the Grammys

Locos Por Juana, considered by many to be Miami's best Latin band, makes their way to La La Land today for a string of performances surrounding the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.  Whether their getting the crowd going at one of the city's many festivals or barring the entrance to Jazid as thei ... More >>

A Very-Not-Safe-for-Work Reminder of Why You Should Go Easy on the Coke

Eljuri

En Paz (Manovill)

Black Tuna Gang Leader Gets Out of Jail

Robert Platshorn was the first big bust of the War on Drugs. Almost 30 years later, he's free and talking.

Throwing it Back--"A Lo Cubano"

Urban Pall

CiFo's latest round of winners explores the art of darkness.

Culture, Not Cocaine

Pablo Is Gone traffics in Colombia’s traditions, not its drug trade.

Reading Miranda

Edison Miranda looks to scramble Porras

Trampling the Grid

CIFO's commission artists offer slaphappy taproots, martyrs, and more

Hot Couture

Juanes

Mi Sangre Surco/Universal

Sonic Support

Council of the Sun plays on to support Colombia's victims

Heavy Traffic

Miami attorney Joaquin Perez helps drug kingpins get minimum jail time, maximum profits, by cooperating with the feds

All Around the Neighborhood

A quick look at our amigos from Toronto to Tierra del Fuego

South American Style

Colombia spawns its own posse of angry young rappers

Liberating the Truth

A Colombian actor decides to dump his role and become Símon Bolívar

BEST DIVE SHOP

Bubbles Dive Center

Opium Dream

A New Year's Reverie

Headbang in Bogotá

The other Plan Colombia

Cuisines of the Damned

Vecherny Vostok

Totó Rows Ashore

Yes, there are drums in Colombia

Best Place To Buy Latin Music

Esperanto Music

A Festful of Film

Cinema of the Americas: Latin American and Caribbean Independent Film Festival

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

The Next Wave

A dedicated group of Latin Americans breaks the sound barrier with rock en espanol

Chong Feature