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Since I learned that in Colombia there is a town called Armenia an enormous curiosity overwhelmed me I got quench by chance. We were in Pereira, in the heart of the coffee, giving a workshop at the university. Thought after spending a couple of days doing a tour around the city. Our plans changed when he meets Claudia, mother of Maria Teresa, the organizer of the workshop. Claudia lives in

Salento, a beautiful town, very touristy due to its colorful houses full of craft shops located in the neighboring department of Quindio, also in the coffee. She has a farm that grows herbs, an activity that combines with various social work projects aimed at promoting the empowerment of rural women in the region through the arts. We said we could not stop going to Salento and convinced us. We caught the bus, the vallenato are sweet, eager to detox from all the noise and pollution of Bogota and Pereira. We found a charming traveling companion, an Indian musician and mystic, but that story I reserve it for another time. Total

that after meet in Salento Claudia told us: "What do you think an interview at the college radio of Armenia? Is for the only program with a gender perspective in the department. "How do you say no to a request like that? We hardly had time to leave your luggage in the guesthouse and have a coffee before getting back into another van heading to another city.

"Why is it called Armenia?", as we had occasion to ask. For those who inhabited this region were considerably enlightened. So, to found the capital of Quindio in 1889, far from resorting to the name of a virgin , wanted to pay tribute to victims of the war that was happening in Armenia.

The Armenia Colombia is known as "the city miracle." We were told it was because of how well they recovered after the earthquake of 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit in 1999. It amazes me now read on Wikipedia that killed 1230 people. I suppose that given the magnitude of the disaster, the figure is much lower than expected.

actually just saw the city, but we went to the University of Quindio to conduct the interview. Was for an environmental program led by environmentalist Nestor Jaime Ocampo, which Xatlí Murillo, journalist and close friend of Claudia, has a space that incorporates a gender perspective. We had to record on recorder and a drop in blood suspended the program. The good thing is that during the wait we chat with Jaime and Nestor Xatlí, two university professors charming, passionate about environmentalism, we spoke of the evils suffered by the region, as desertification due to the massive cultivation of exotic species of pine. Nestor Jaime

told a feat, so please check now traced (I love Google) has become popular. He bought shares of the multinational Smurfit paper to stand on its shareholders' meeting in Dublin and report that they were profiting at the expense of committing two separate crimes ecological Quindío. Meeting

a report that tells the whole story. I copied an excerpt: "The fact [the intervention of Nestor Jaime in the shareholders'] recorded in profusion on the radio, newspapers and the Irish television, was unexpected achievements and the famous rock band U2, led by Bono, was involved in the debate, when it was discovered by the multinational bad habits inserted a group photo in their publications, making it appear as guarantor for the management of the multinational. Néstor Jaime wrote to Bono and the group condemned the action of Smurfit. To conclude this part, say that the demand established by the powerful Smurfit against Nestor Jaime Ocampo succeeded: environmentalists demonstrated against the Colombian justice system that claims were backed by proven facts. "

a luxury for hearing this story in the voice of its protagonist, and to know him and to Xatlí, a pioneer report on the nexus that unites feminism and environmentalism. Thank you both.

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As I do not know where to start, I think I'll tell little stories and anecdotes from our trip in installments. In end has been a wonderful experience, both games as the days touring Bogotá and the coffee (Pereira, Armenia, Salento, Cocora ...)

No tourists have gone too. The trouble is that we may have been essential to see things: monuments, museums, landscapes ... The good news, we have embedded more than I thought in Colombian society. More than geographical landscapes human interest me, and I believe to have been only a week we could discern at least a few elements characteristic of the people paisas.

A week has only been enough to get used to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe possibilities offered by the country: its overwhelming social diversity, ethnic, cultural, political and social, with hundreds of features, stories and conduct interviews, dozens of dance rhythms, millions of people peculiar to know ... García Márquez say more than a great novelist, is a great photographer. That is, Colombia is pure magic realism. From what little I've seen, attest. I'm all enmorriñada

, but globalization has its advantages: Today I ate chicken arepas rate of calf, and I bought a chocolate dessert peanut. Tomorrow I soursop juice breakfast in the Plaza Nueva, and tell you my adventures as the owner of those premises as the Cali girl in the parlor I frequent. While you can not go back, get the most juice to those segments of cold blanking Colombia Bilbao.

In the picture: the family photo of the meetings

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25 November at the demo, the 26 in Colombia! Minor

is coming November 25th International Day Against Violence Against Women, a day of mourning, which hits record to killed 57 women so far this year by their partners or former partners, and many others killed in previous years. Remember we usually generate rage, goats leads to insufficient social awareness, with the bad media coverage (in most cases), with gaps in laws, etc. However, this year I plan to meet the date with hope.

Of course we have to be critical, but I think we must preserve the joy and enthusiasm for the beautiful things we are doing so we would not invade the defeatism. Not everything is crap. I guess what I see because I am surrounded by a lot of exciting projects.

The most intense is that the same Thursday I'm going to Colombia, the III. Meetings of the International Network of Journalists with a Gender Perspective . Remember that the latter two years ago in Oviedo, I came so high that we set up a Basque network. I am sure that this meeting will also give good results. There is no doubt that I am thrilled by what is on a personal level, but all I enjoy what I will inform you of his time in a trip to the parlor, both in Bogotá, where the encounter, as in Pereira, where he teaches a workshop on non-sexist communication. We will meet hundreds of journalists sensitized to equality to discuss communication strategies feminist and think how to strengthen our networks.

just arrived on the 4th of December, I'll leave it to the State Feminist Conference Granada. Another rush: thousands of feminist discussion, sharing, enjoying ... See the tide schedule.

And right now I'm finishing another wonderful project. Hand in hand with the consulting Sortzen, led by Norma Vázquez , Maite Asensio (my compilation of Red, traveling to Colombia and irreplaceable friend) and I have interviewed mothers of Basque women victims of male violence. The testimonies we have written will be read a tribute on November 30 in Barakaldo, whose objectives are to know who these women show they were not killed for being weak and dependent but because they rebelled, to publicize what happens to families when microphones and tape recorders forget them, etc.

The experience was awesome and I am very satisfied with the result. I hope they'll let me mostrároslo soon.

Therefore, because we are walking steadily, reflecting and sharing strategies, spreading our principles and analysis, approaching and meeting the victims and their families, I will not sink in this November 25. Need excitement to go ahead and entangle more and more journalists, because as stated a recent study, well informed about domestic violence can save lives .

Note: Overwhelmed by both exciting project, I would cite the main persons who have accompanied me in this process and that raised my concerns. In chronological order (from breaking into my life): Karmel, Make, Tina, Lucy, Ritxar and Maite.

Note 2: In the vignette, a classic Forges.