Our friends at Educational Housing Services in New York City are hosting three excellent workshops this week. We would like to help them rely the message to our audience because managing your finances, preparing your resume, and finding jobs can be challenging in this recovering economy. If you need further information about these workshops, please contact María Carolina Giraldo by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it These events are free of charge but make sure you make reservations for you and your friends. Snacks and drinks will be provided. You can attend one program or all of them.

After a strong start, PC Career Coaching Series announces its second event: "Interview Skills Workshop" to be held on Friday, June 11 from 7:00 p.m. to 9 p.m. Learn the techniques for a successful interview, how to make a good impression, and the different kinds of interviews. This workshop will be conducted by Andrew Wise, expert professional in the human resources industry and employee selection process. The venue will be hosted at 1250 Broadway (corner of 32nd Street) 7th floor, room 7A, New York, NY 10001.

In an effort to help our members excel in this challenging job market, we have created PorColombia's first Career Coaching Series event called "The Art of Writing a Resume." This free worshop will answer questions like what are employers looking for in a resume and which are the latest trends in resume writing. The workshop will be presented by Baruch's expert business professor Roy Johnson. Gain insight into the best tactics on how to land an interview, resume styles, and accomplishment-driven language. Where to go? Join us at Baruch College Vertical Campus building, room 3-215 at 7:00 p.m. on April 30.

PorColombia @ Baruch College features the 2010 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film El Secreto de sus Ojos on April 16 at 7:00 p.m. sharp at the Vertical Campus building in room 4170. This Argentinean film directed by Juan José Campanella has won an additional 34 awards and 19 nominations worldwide. According to the Internet Movie database, "the story, set in 1999, is told in flashback form: in June 1974 a federal justice agent, Benjamín Espósito, becomes spellbound by and subsequently entangled in the investigation of the crime of a young woman, brutally raped and murdered inside her house in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood."

The movie will start on time, and we are pleased to say that PorColombia @ Baruch movie nights are back! Refreshments will be served.

The IV CSC featured expert panelists on the current political landscape, human rights, and the good momentum lived by the Colombian cinema. Panelists include Colombian Ambassador for the OAS Luis Alfonso Hoyos, COA's Vice President Eric Farnsworth, CIP's Adam Isacson, and Colombian film directors Simon brand and Felipe Aljure among many others. On Sunday, we hosted a truly "Colombian carnival" featuring Gato y Palenke Music Co., DJ George García, Orquesta Kanney, and singer Verny Varela.

Our chapter at The George Washington University hosted this event at the state-of-the-art Jack Morton Auditorium. This was the fourth installment of our signature annual Colombian Student Conference.

We broadcasted the event via Twitter using the following hashtags: #IVCSC, #porcolombia, and #latism. Click here to view our agenda.

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PorColombia's dear friend June Carolyn Erlick, editor-in-chief of ReVista, Harvard's Review of Latin America, will share some insight on her book A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia's Invisible War on March 31 at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 7:00 p.m. This book is the English version of her praised book Una Gringa en Bogotá, originally published in Spanish in 2007.

Colombia suffers from a chronic problem of misconceptions and misinformation in the hearts and minds of the global community. If you're a Colombian living abroad and your nationality becomes evident in a conversation, it is almost guaranteed that you will have to endure some harsh comments regarding kidnapping or cheap jokes about drugs. And if you add that you are from Bogotá, there's a big chance the only images that will come to mind are of a war-ravaged city forgotten by culture, beauty, and any kind of civility.

PorColombia @ York invites to a conversation with PhD in Sociology candidate Jasmin Hristov on the decades-old internal conflict in Colombia. The event takes place on Thursday, March 18 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Curtis Lecture Hall E at the Keele campus. Hristov is the author of the book Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia.

The dialogue with Hristov, a Canadian-born sociologist, will touch upon the current state of human rights, the fate of afro-colombian and indigenous groups entangled between government security forces and guerrillas, and the drama of forced displacement. In addition, we will address current economic and security policies imlemented by the government of President Álvaro Uribe. We will emphazise on how Colombians living abroad may contribute to achieve peace and improve the lives of so many young victims.