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If you walk along 53rd Avenue between 79th and 84th Streets today, what you see are glass towers, shopping malls, and endless lines of cars. But forty years ago

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The Other Independence: How Barranquilla Got Ahead of Cartagena in the Fight Against Spain

If you ask in any Plaza de Bolívar about the independence of the Colombian Caribbean, the answer is almost always the same: Cartagena, on November 11, 1811. But

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When one thinks of World War II, the first things that come to mind are the European fronts, the Pacific, or North Africa. But few know that Barranquilla, a str

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