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Prediction and Reading Comprehension
Colombia peace talks
Nov 19, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema. colombiareports.co
The Colombian government
has been engaged in peace talks with the country’s largest rebel group, FARC, since November 19,
2012.
The two parties agreed to hold the peace talks in Havana. The dialogues are formally guaranteed by Norway and Cuba, and are additionally sponsored by Chile and Venezuela.
In order to advance the process, the negotiators agreed to a fixed agenda before formally beginning the negotiations. The agenda is based on a signed preliminary General Agreement that functions as a framework, defining which demands can be made and which not.
This General Agreement was
signed after a year and a half of secret negotiations between the Santos administration and the FARC, and sought to put an end to a war that had begun to seem endless.
Read and answer
1. What does FARC mean?
2. What is the role of Norway and Cuba in this process?
3. What do the two parties hold the peace talks for?
4. Do you think there will be an end to the armed conflict in Colombia?
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Read and answer
1. Does drugs abuse affect your health? How?
2. Choose one of the consecuences of drug addiction and make a power point presentation. Be ready to present it in class.
Cali salsa; a history of slaves, Cuban bands and Mexican cinema
Dec 12, 2014 posted by Juan Pablo Acevedo
A history of slavery, Cuban music, Mexican movies, foreign radio broadcasts, a disciplined collecting of vinyl records, and sounds from New York City all were key in the history of salsa in Cali and how Colombia’s third city became the world capital of the tropical music style.
Cali is the is the closest capital to the Colombian Pacific coast, almost 2,000 miles away from the cradle of salsa that was originally born in New York after crucial cultural developments in Cuba, Puerto Rico and even Mexico.
Colombia Reports spoke to Umberto Valverde, expert in the history of salsa, biographer of artists like Celia Cruz and Jairo Varela, journalist and author of 11 books on Cali’s history and salsa.
The birth of salsa in New York…
After the Cuban revolution, musicians from the island moved to New York, meeting up with other Caribbean and Latino cultures while finding American radio stations were split between white pop stations and black stations playing mostly rhythm and blues and soul.
The Latinos, equipped with the instruments they had brought from their home countries, began mixing the different Latino music styles, and rhythm and blues, and music styles like pachanga and boogaloo arose in New York City. It was these music styles that eventually would transform to salsa.
…and how it moved to Cali (1957-1968)
In 1957, Cali’s upper class organized a carnival to commemorate the crop of sugar cane. Meanwhile, working class citizens began organizing dance events to collect money for community needs.
The carnival began as an annual bullfighting event but increasingly began inviting salsa artists to the city. The festival became known as the Feria de Cali and proved crucial in the landing of boogaloo and salsa music in Colombia’s third largest city.
When Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz, a pioneering salsa duo, were invited to play at the feria in 1968, salsa physically and permanently found a place in the city and on the increasingly musical annual fair.
And here is when something peculiar happened, something that would change the sound of Cali salsa forever.
As they sometimes still do, Cali DJs did not care much whether a record was to be played at 33RPM or 45RPM. If a song proved more danceable at a higher speed, DJ’s would play the record at nearly twice the speed as initially intended by the recording artists.
This “greatly disturbed Richie Ray, because it made his voice squeaky,” according to Laverde.
However, Caleños didn’t care and continued to play their records at the speed they felt most fit for dancing, forcing a local salsa musician movement that played one of the most explosive forms of the tropical music, one filled with percussion and danced in a way only the Caleños dance.
http://colombiareports.co/how-salsa-came-to-cali-colombia/
Read and answer
1. Why did Cali become the world capital of salsa?
2. How was Salsa born?
3. How did it move to Santiago de Cali?
Félix Manuel Guevara (miércoles, 01 noviembre 2017 00:48)
Solution
1.FARC is the initials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
2.The dialogues are formally guaranteed by Norway and Cuba,
3.In order to advance the process, the negotiators agreed to a fixed agenda before formally beginning the negotiations.
4.I believe that there will be an end to the conflict for which we are more
jennifer delgado (martes, 31 octubre 2017 21:48)
SOLUCIÓN
1. is a political party that was born from the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
2. The dialogues are formally guaranteed by Norway and Cuba, and are also sponsored by Chile and Venezuela.
3. the FARC, since November 19, 2012.
The two sides agreed to hold peace talks in Havana.
4. between the Santos administration and the FARC, and sought to end a war that had begun to seem interminable.
lina cortes (martes, 31 octubre 2017 19:29)
respuesta
1.revolutionary armed force In Colombia
2:as much as Cuba and Norway made peace conservation with the farc
3:to avansar in prosesos and agreed to make a transaction based on a signed preliminary General Agreement that works as a framework, which defines what demands can be made and not.
4:the truth can not be all that can happen, and it would be good if iniquitous people do not die because of the confluence of the farc and the government
angie cortes (martes, 31 octubre 2017 19:18)
question
1. they are the armed group of Colombia
2. they wanted to create peace with Havana and others
3. so farc goes to the process that is in the process of achieving peace
4. Yes, because if everyone thinks it is possible to achieve peace, they will
Sharon Medina (martes, 31 octubre 2017 18:36)
Solution
1. Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces. As such, they are a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement with the objective of taking political power in Colombia.
2. Norway and Cuba are the guarantors of the peace dialogues
3. To celebrate the peace talks in Havana
4. No, since some of its members want to continue with this and do not want to renounce violence or conflict
julieth valentina pozo (martes, 31 octubre 2017 17:58)
1
It is the largest rebel group in the country
2
it is said that the dialogues are formally guaranteed by Norway and Cuba
3
The agenda is based on a signed preliminary General Agreement that works as a framework
4
I think it's not going to change anything
Yainer Alejandro Riveros Montoya (martes, 31 octubre 2017 15:28)
1-The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army was a ..... FARC did not report any other casualties on either side and delayed months before ..... shifted strategy from guerrilla warfare to "a war of militias", meaning that they were
2-The armed conflict in Colombia has lasted for more than 50 years. It has had severe humanitarian consequences and caused great suffering to the civilian population. Several hundred thousand people have been killed, and more than six million have been forced to flee their homes.
3-After 52 years of bloody armed conflict and more than five years of talks, the Colombian state and the FARC, the country’s largest leftist rebel group, have agreed to make peace.
4-Colombia’s government has secured a groundbreaking peace deal with leftist Farc rebels – promising to end a war that wracked the country for more than half a century, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions.
Yirlenis Ruiz grado: 10-1 (martes, 31 octubre 2017 12:44)
1- colombian revolutionary armed forces.
2- The role of Norway and Cuba in this process are the diologos that are formally guaranteed and are also sponsored by Chile and Venezuela.
3- Because the two sides agreed to hold peace talks in Havana.
4-No, because the farc says that it is going to lay down its arms and does not leave them and the president does not do anything either.
Joxanny Obando-10*1 (martes, 31 octubre 2017 12:23)
solution:
1*It is the alternative revolutionary force of the common (FARC) is a political party that was born from the dissolution of the old revolutionary armed forces of Colombia.
2*that Chile highlights the role of Cuba and Norway and Venezuela in peace process of Colombia
3*the two sides agreed to hold the peace talks in Havana
4* There may be an end to the armed conflict through dialogues and political negotiations etc
Carolay Gomez (martes, 31 octubre 2017 12:21)
1. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
2. The role of Norway and Cuba is start process peace.
3. For the final termination of the conflict.
4. Ithink what although is a work very long and in some moments there will be disagreements but with the perseverance the conflict it could end.
Ingid Riascos (martes, 31 octubre 2017 12:19)
1: the true meaning of farc are the largest rebel groups in the country.
2: The role of Norwegian and Cuba in Havana was to agree and celebrate the peace talks and dialogues.
3: The two sides agreed to hold peace talks in Havana.
4: Colombia continues to experience an armed and persistent conflict generated by decade of violence in the countryside through dialogues and negotiations.