Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with an insular region in North America. It is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and Panama to the northwest. Colombia comprises 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), with a population of 50 million. Colombia's cultural heritage reflects influences by various Amerindian civilizations, European settlement, enslaved Africans, as well as immigration from Europe and the Middle East. Spanish is the nation's official language, besides which over 70 languages are spoken.
Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality. Specifically, the movement seeks the repeal or overturning of laws which restrict a woman's right not to have her chest covered at all times in public.
The Salta Renewal Party is a conservative provincial political party in Salta Province, Argentina.
Platense Football Club S.A. de C.V. or simply Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Platense, Puerto Cortés, Cortés.
Eduardo Noriega Gómez is a Spanish film actor. He is known for his roles in two of Alejandro Amenábar's films: the multiple Goya Award-winning Tesis (Thesis) (1996) and Open Your Eyes (1997). He also starred in The Wolf (2004). In the United States, Noriega is known for his role as Enrique in the political thriller Vantage Point (2008).
Hernán Darío Gómez Jaramillo, also known as El Bolillo, is a Colombian former footballer and football manager who last managed the Honduras national football team.
The Bolivarian Games are a regional multi-sport event held in honor of Simón Bolívar, and organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization. The event is open to athletes from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. In 2010, the ODEBO decided to include Chile as seventh member of ODEBO. Except Panama, all other participating countries are Andean states.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Colombia are among the most advanced in the Americas and throughout the world, and have substantially progressed since consensual homosexual activity was decriminalized in 1981. Between February 2007 and April 2008, three rulings of the Constitutional Court granted registered same-sex couples the same pension, social security and property rights as registered heterosexual couples. In 2011, Congress passed a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, and on 28 April 2016, the Constitutional Court legalized same-sex marriage, making Colombia the fourth South American country to do so.
Semana is a weekly magazine in Colombia.
Union, Progress and Democracy was a Spanish political party founded in September 2007 and dissolved in December 2020. It was a social-liberal party that rejected any form of nationalism, especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements. The party was deeply pro-European and wanted the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments. It also wanted to replace the State of Autonomies with a much more centralist, albeit still politically decentralized, unitary system as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one.
Wendy Guerra, formally Wendy Guerra Torres, is a Cuban poet and novelist, based in Miami.
Germán Santa María Barragán is the current Ambassador of Colombia to Portugal. A renowned journalist in Colombia, he is a five-time winner of the Simón Bolívar National Award in Journalism, and twice served as president of the Bogotá Circle of Journalists; he has been a contributor for El Tiempo for eleven years, and editor-in-chief of Diners magazine since 1999. As a writer, his novel No Morirás won the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Award, and was turned into a made-for-television film by director Jorge Alí Triana and aired in 1997.
Mario Casas Sierra is a Spanish actor. He rose to fame in Spain with the television series Los hombres de Paco (2007-2010), and later in the film Three Steps Above Heaven (2010).
Donjuan is a Colombian monthly lads mag and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude.
Rigoberto Manuel Rivas Vindel is a Honduran professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Serie B club Reggina 1914 and the Honduras national team.
Jairo Rochez Crisanto is a Honduran professional footballer who presently plays for Lobos UPNFM of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras.
Denil Omar Maldonado Munguía is a Honduran professional footballer who plays as a defender for Motagua. He also represents the Honduras national team.
Jimena V. Sánchez is a Mexican sports journalist, television host and model. She is currently signed to Fox Sports Mexico and Fox Deportes, where she is best known for anchoring the programs Lo Mejor de Fox Sports and WWE Saturday Night.
Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira has been referred to as the Queen of Latin Music and is considered to be the most recognizable face of Latin music around the world. With 80 millions of records she is listed as the best-selling Latin female artist in history. According to a report by Forbes, in 2018 Shakira was the female Latin artist who had sold the most albums in history, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Vogue writer Carla Ramirez called Shakira the greatest Latin female icon in history and journalist Queralt Uceda from La Vanguardia credits Shakira for being the artist who has taken the Spanish language to the top while others credit her for being the pioneer in bringing Spanish to the entire world. Not only the language, but the culture, rhythms and concerns of a population silenced in the international scene. Various media describe Shakira as an artist who makes Latin American culture visible in the world and credit her for opening the doors of the international industry to Latinos.
