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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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.

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