536: Death, Syphilis and Stories from Beyond the Grave in Colombia

Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia

Angela Alvarez is a natural-born storyteller, her latest venture of the podcast: "When Home is a Foreign Word" is testament to this. In fact, there's no way we can keep on topic - is there ever one? - and we enjoy a far-reaching conversation, a great deal of laughs about life and death in Colombia (the funny side), the origins of the word syphilis, identity and witchcraft. Angela states, when we discuss what it means to be an immigrant, "humans are reliable narrators of their own existence," and then we plunge into a conversation which I count as one of my favourite in over 500 episodes broadcast on the Colombia Calling podcast. The Colombia Briefing is reported by Emily Hart. Her Substack can be found: https://harte.substack.com/ Please consider supporting our podcast: www.patreon.com/colombiacalling Tune in, you'll not regret it.