You should be reading 'Colombia Reports'

Colombia Reports is an English language online daily that popped up on my screen about a year ago. I've been drawn back to it more and more often, and nowadays it's part of my normal day-to-day reading.

For the wide coverage of Colombian affairs they cover, their team of what looks like 17 people (including editor, reporters, photographers, office and sales) is remarkably small. The best compliment I can offer them is to say I sometimes forget I'm not reading in Spanish over at the site, it's that good. These guys actually do real, genuine reporting, too. It's not just a whole page of newswire re-hashes that you can read in other places. It's the real deal, unafraid of reporting Colombia the way it is in English.

So now you know; there's a top quality news service out there on Colombia in the English language available to you for free (they survive on advertising and donations). Go see for yourself on this link and from today you'll find the link to Colombia Reports on the IKN right-hand linksbar.

Where can you buy Inca Kola?

Today's the day I clear this one up once and for all.

Inca Kola, for those that don't know, is the Peruvian soda that outsells Coca-Cola in its home country (factoid; Inca Kola in Peru and Thums Up in India are the only soft drinks in the world that outsell Coca-Cola in their home market, or so I'm told). It's bright yellow in colour and the flavour is often described as bubblegum (though I detect notes of banana in there). It's best drunk ice cold so that you don't realize just how much sugar is hitting your bloodstream. My personal fave funfact about IncaKola is that the cheap copies of the stuff made in Peru by other soda companies are usually known as "yellow flavour", which is the most adorable name possible.

I've been asked on several occasions how to buy Inca Kola in North America and another mail arrived last night. The answer is on this link. For U$7.95, some company called MexGrocer will send you a 6pack of the stuff. And no, I'm not on commission for this one. Just a public service announcement to further the cause of diabetes in our modern world. Have a nice Saturday.