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La Guajira Department

La Guajira Department

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Search complete. 21 mentions across 9 episodes found for "La Guajira Department".

Sep 8, 2026

María Jimena DuzánHOST
35:32
Bendito El Menor, they called him El Menor in Riohacha.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
35:36
Esta escenografía de la muerte volvió a repetirse hace pocos días, cuando se anunció por parte del presidente desde La Guajira, la muerte y el abatimiento en una operación hecha por la policía del bendito menor, un cabecilla de los Pachenca, que forman parte de las autodefensas conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
36:01
Él se había instalado, el bendito menor se había instalado en Río Bacha y estaba causando toda suerte de violencias y estragos en esa parte del país.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
36:12
Eso era evidente y se había vuelto además famoso por dos cosas.
Jen GaleHOST
28:31
goodness
Linda AspeyGUEST
28:31
me and i wonder if i can share a story yeah go for it it's absolutely beautiful this this is a community in northern colombia called the wakel community and um in a place called La Guajira and they have been the subject of intensive coal mining since the 1970s, deep coal mining.
Linda AspeyGUEST
28:58
And it's a very spiritual, it's the largest indigenous culture in Colombia.
Linda AspeyGUEST
29:06
And they are a matriarchal society and they are very deeply attached to their land.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:06
Usually, when he left, it would take three days, four days, and then he would call again, and he never called again.
Josh RushingGUEST
45:18
On September 15th, 2025, 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza was off the coast of La Guajira, Colombia, when his family said they lost communication with him.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:29
People began to whisper that Alejandro might have already died in one of the bombings.
Josh RushingGUEST
45:35
His childhood friend was one of the first people to connect his disappearance with a video of a strike posted by President Trump on social media.
speaker_21SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:09
Usually when he left, it would take three days, four days, and then he would call again, and he never called again.
Josh RushingGUEST
45:18
On September 15, 2025, 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza was off the coast of La Guajira, Colombia, when his family said they lost communication with him.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:30
People began to whisper that Alejandro might have already died in one of the bombings.
Josh RushingGUEST
45:36
His childhood friend was one of the first people to connect his disappearance with a video of a strike posted by President Trump on social media.
speaker_20SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:09
Usually when he left, it would take three days, four days, and then he would call again, and he never called again.
Josh RushingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:18
On September 15, 2025, 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza was off the coast of La Guajira, Colombia, when his family said they lost communication with him.
speaker_21SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:30
People began to whisper that Alejandro might have already died in one of the bombings.
Josh RushingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:35
His childhood friend was one of the first people to connect his disappearance with a video of a strike posted by President Trump on social media.
speaker_20SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:09
Usually when he left, it would take three days, four days, and then he would call again, and he never called again.
speaker_2NARRATOR
45:18
On September 15, 2025, 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza was off the coast of La Guajira, Colombia, when his family said they lost communication with him.
speaker_21SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:30
People began to whisper that Alejandro might have already died in one of the bombings.
speaker_2NARRATOR
45:35
His childhood friend was one of the first people to connect his disappearance with a video of a strike posted by President Trump on social media.
Jorge Iván GonzálezGUEST
46:11
Por eso, pero-- mire, uno debería tener una institución que le dijera al, al gobierno que llegue: "Mire, mire, presidente, bienvenido.
Jorge Iván GonzálezGUEST
46:20
Este proyecto de reforestación de La Guajira, por ejemplo, es a veinte años.
Jorge Iván GonzálezGUEST
46:25
Vamos en el año seis.
Jorge Iván GonzálezGUEST
46:27
Bienvenido, faltan catorce años.
Ariel ÁvilaGUEST
47:23
Mire, yo voy a decir una cosa, lo que dice, lo que dice aquí el, el, el profe.
Ariel ÁvilaGUEST
47:27
Mire, por ejemplo, el tema energético.
Ariel ÁvilaGUEST
47:31
Por temas de consulta previa y eso, hay una red para, eh, pasar energía, pa montar cables y postes, para decir transferir energía de La Guajira colectora, que estamos en el ochenta y siete por ciento.
María Jimena DuzánHOST
47:44
Pero ya está.
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:15
Sí, en vacaciones veníamos sobre todo a la costa, a Santa Marta, a Valledupar, a Cartagena.
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:20
Cruzábamos por La Guajira, por tierra casi siempre.
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:22
Creo que nunca un-- no recuerdo haber venido en avión.
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:25
Siempre veníamos por tierra al, eh-
María Jimena DuzánHOST
14:27
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:27
...a La Guajira, a la costa, a la costa Caribe.
Cynar AlvaradoGUEST
14:31
Y, y repito, aunque hubo muchas oportunidades para nosotros allá, y yo estoy muy agradecido con Venezuela, tengo una ag-- eh, una deuda impagable con ese país y no la tengo yo solo, la tienen generaciones de colombianos-
María Jimena DuzánHOST
14:43
Claro
Loren MossHOST
4:44
OK, we have an ambulance boat who can get you from here to there.
Loren MossHOST
4:48
So he spends about half a million dollars on these two boats and he gives them to a hospital in Maikal in La Guajira.
Loren MossHOST
4:55
Maikal, I've been there.
Loren MossHOST
4:57
It's in the desert.
Loren MossHOST
8:35
The first one that comes to mind is the Carro Tanques.
Loren MossHOST
8:37
And you've heard me talk about this, the tanker trucks.
Loren MossHOST
8:41
80 tanker trucks that were supposed to bring water to La Guajira, the impoverished desert region up on the Atlantic coast near Venezuela.
Loren MossHOST
8:49
They were purchased deliberately overpriced.

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