Tag Archives: vallenato music

News of a Contract Killing

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Richard

The news of a contract killing of a neurosurgeon in Barranquilla in January 2014 did not sound any alarm bells when I overheard the reports that morning. I was otherwise occupied on another story and as unpleasant as the reality … Continue reading →

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Romantic Vallenato Music: Colombia’s Worst Creation?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Richard

Subjected in my rural office, to two nearby riverside kiosks intent upon drowning out one another and inflicting the rest of us to raucous, skull splitting and above all tedious strains of romantic vallenato music at all hours of the … Continue reading →

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