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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
When Kiev Mutton Speaks…
I'm on my last day of training here in Ukraine (I was informed that they prefer that we gringoes say "Ukraine" rather than "The Ukraine" ... not sure what their objection to the article is, but OK...) The reporter teams have done some stunning work...
New toys arriving soon…
The posts here have been pretty sporadic - it's my hope that the imminent arrival of a Nokia N95 cellphone (the new & slightly improved N96 is pictured to the right) will inspire me to put the thing thru its paces to see how useful a tool it is to multimedia...
Back to Venezuela Via the Cocaine Highway
It's been 20 years since I took a job as wire editor, later managing editor, of the Caracas Daily Journal. In all that time, I have not returned. Part of that is because the circumstances under which I left were pretty heinous – I had been told...
Egg Messenger
Egg Messenger Originally uploaded by Wordyeti I've got a major blog post marinating about Cucuta, the Narco-Emperor there known as "El Pulpo" ("The Octopus"), the trip to Bucaramanga, where Pablo Escobar blew up 20,000 sq. feet of a 60,000 sq. foot bulding in his...
Victory or Death
Victory or Death Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is one of the images that just stuck in my head ... sometimes you feel like you're walking through the set of a giant movie, and this march was like that. The Pereirans in the street, out in the blazing midday sun,...
Praying for the release of the FARC hostages
Praying for the release of the FARC hostages Originally uploaded by Wordyeti I went into the cathedral at the behest of the rather skeevy taxi driver/local tour guide we had hired for the afternoon, and quickly found that they were in the midst of a deeply emotional...