Pasto (Colombia)

                   

Colombia declares emergency to deal with money scams

gulfnews.com
8 hrs ago 62 related
        

Colombia government officials declared a state of emergency on Monday, boosting their powers of arrest and money seizure to help deal with multimillion-dollar investment scams that have targeted mostly poor investors.

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Investors duped in pyramid schemes clash with police in Colombia

earthtimes.org
13-Nov-2008 79 related
        

Bogota - Colombians cheated out of their savings in pyramid schemes took to the streets and clashed with police, prompting curfews to be imposed in a number of south-western cities. Authorities said several people were injured...

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Family fight to win back art of 'insane' genius

guardian.co.uk
09-Nov-2008
        

A legal battle rages over the rights to works given away by a Mexican artist confined in US asylums A row has erupted over the legacy of one of the most celebrated exponents of "outsider art", more than 40 years after his...

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Martín Ramírez: Spit and crayons

economist.com
06-Nov-2008
        

The animating spirit of life in a psychiatric institutionMARTIN RAMIREZ spent most of his adult life in mental hospitals. He taught himself to paint, using whatever he could lay his hands on: food, pencils, crayons, shoe...

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Ramirez Heirs Seek To Reclaim Artist's Lost Work

bigblog.com
29-Oct-2008
        

Martin Ramirez spent more than 30 years in California psychiatric hospitals. “Many of his paintings ended in the garbage cans ... None of us saw the value of the paintings.”James Durfee, former psychiatric nurse at DeWitt State...

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