By Miles Burke
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Lina and I are in Choachí, Cundinamarca this week, talking about the experience we had looking for property to buy in Colombia. My idea was to buy a piece of cheap land and build a house on it, which has been an adventure a year and a half in the making so far. Nothing is built yet, but we’re getting close to breaking ground.
We also talk about the Spanish cargo/treasure ship, the galeón San José, sunk in 1708 by British pirates, off the coast of Cartagena. Colombia, other South American countries, indigenous groups, American treasure hunters, and even the Spanish government are getting involved.
This week on the podcast:
1:12 - Buying land in Colombia
39:55 - San José galleon (sunken Spanish treasure ship)
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Presenting the Gone Native weekly Latin America News Roundup for the week of March 10, 2024. See below for links to articles referenced in this episode.
This week on the Roundup:
* 00:47 - Intro, a little background on yours truly
* 16:38 - LATAM headlines
* 43:44 - Fight over the wreck of the San José galleon (Spanish treasure ship)
* 47:42 - Venezuela and the battle for Guyana’s oil
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Read my recent article on the situation heating up between Guyana and Venezuela over the Esequibo region.
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Articles referenced in this week’s roundup:
* https://arkeonews.net/4750-year-old-megalithic-stone-plaza-discovered-in-the-high-andes-of-peru/
* https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-markets-double-down-milei-investors-start-believe-2024-02-23/
* https://fortune.com/2024/02/25/mexico-president-amlo-new-york-times-phone-number-son/
* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/22/thousands-of-americans-fall-prey-to-mexican-cartel-cjng-timeshare-scam/72695295007/
* https://co.usembassy.gov/security-alert-reminder-of-the-continued-threat-of-crime-in-colombia/
* https://thecitypaperbogota.com/news/un-report-warns-governance-in-colombia-at-risk-from-armed-groups/
* https://thediplomat.com/2024/02/chinas-security-engagement-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
* https://apnews.com/article/colombia-warlord-salvatore-mancuso-returns-234c80f02a3d734ef99240432ba7aa86
* https://cambiocolombia.com/poder/mancuso-documento-prueba-uribe-extradito-porque-quiso
* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/world/americas/san-jose-galleon-shipwreck-treasure.html
* https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-guyana-essequibo-territory-dispute-maduro-referendum-90a4f0f962a83620903987a68a7d39b0
* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67610200
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A few months ago, I started to hear rumblings about Nicolás Maduro, the erstwhile dictator of Venezuela, wanting his country to annex part of Guyana, the tiny and (until now) politically insignificant country bordering Venezuela to the east.
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Presenting the Gone Native weekly LATAM Roundup for the week of February 18, 2024.
This week on the Roundup:
01:20 - Ancient cave art & lost cities in the Amazon
05:42 - Update on South America wildfires
09:35 - Emberá indigenous take over Bogotá’s National Park
13:36 - Update on scopoloamine druggings
15:47 - Secret U.S. military installation on Colombian Isla Gorgona
20:15 - END THE DRUG WARS!
22:46 - Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela (& China?) weaponizing immigration
33:06 - Did Mexico’s AMLO take a $2 million bribe from the Sinaloa Cartel?
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Presenting the Gone Native LATAM Roundup for the week of February 11, 2024.
This week on the Roundup:
00:46 - The Gone Native philosophy & shenanigans in Davos
10:45 - Super Bowl avocados by the thousands of tons
29:05 - Gustavo Petro goes after the Colombian Supreme Court
51:02 - The weaponization of immigration
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Listen to the audio version of my latest article, "A Date with the Dark Side" (17:08)
Wanderlusty tourists beware: using dating apps in Colombia can get you drugged, robbed, kidnapped, assaulted, or even killed.
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Presenting the Gone Native weekly LATAM Roundup for the week of February 4, 2024.
This week on the Roundup:
00:56 - Wildfires calm in Colombia but surge in Chile
06:10 - Javier Milei’s libertarian paradise unfolds
07:54 - Ecuador smolders under narco-violence
09:43 - “Take Back Our Border” takes back…a field in Texas?
13:00 - My housekeeper requests asylum from doing my dishes
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Presenting the (very first!) Gone Native weekly Latin America News Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024.
This week on the Roundup:
01:54 - Wildfires RAVAGE Colombia
12:40 - Date rape drugs run AMOK
31:45 - Javier Milei BREAKS Argentina
32:50 - Ecuador is ON FIRE
34:45 - Migration continues to SURGE
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I’m looking forward to doing a lot more of these shows in the future, both solo and with my intrepid co-host Lina Yucumá, as well as possibly guests and interviews down the line.
¡Saludos!
Listen to this recent article from Gone Native read aloud by the author.
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"As the old Land Rover raced at top speed across the shimmering open air of a salt flat, its tires spewing a massive cloud of dust behind us, slipping back and forth on the odd pebble or pool of dust, in and out of the imprints of old tire tracks, bouncing up and down on the ancient suspension which felt as if it was about to flip over and kill us at any moment, I began to wonder if I made a mistake signing us up for this tour.”
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https://gonenative.substack.com/p/children-la-guajira-wayuu-desert-poverty
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Listen to this recently posted article on the Gone Native podcast.
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“In a surprising twist, Colombian underworld groups are facing increased competition from Mexican drug cartels, most notably the Sinaloa Cartel, on their own territory. Mexican cartel operatives are known as “ambassadors” on the ground in Colombia, and are now an increasing source of much of the violence, instability, and rural displacement, far from the borders of their own country.”
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The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.