COLOMBIA: Flooding Hits Barranquilla...Again.

BBC/ 1:06 DRAMATIC Raw Video...after :15 advert

    The streets of Barranquilla were swept by rapid, violent flooding...that took cars and even buses away...with passengers still on top of the vehicles.
     But no deaths were reported.

COLOMBIA: Soccer Player Gets Red Card For Kicking Owl; May Get Jail Time.

NYC D.NEWS/ with 1:01 video /

   A grounded common owl that was kicked off the field by soccer player Luis Moreno in Barranquilla during a play-off match has died...outraging animal rights activists.
   After his action, some fans chanted: "killer, killer, killer."
   Moreno said he did not know the bird was a good-luck charm.
  "I want to apologize to the fans," he said after the game. "I was not trying to hurt the owl. I did it to see if it would fly."
   Animal cruelty laws there can punish offenders with up to three months in jail.
   Many activists want Moreno, a native of Panama, to get the maximum.

COLOMBIA: Emergency Declared After Heavy Rains Near Bogota; Barranquilla Flooding Video.

C.REPORTS/       Unusually heavy rains drenching Soacha, near Bogota, have forced authorities to declare a state of emergency. Rains have soaked the nation since January leaving 48 people dead and affecting more than 47,000 in 27 of the 32 departments. Barranquilla has also been hit hard. The rainy season usually lasts only until mid-June but after an exceptionally dry 2009 El Niño season meteorologists believe 2010 will unusually wet because of the La Niña phenonmenon.
Here is :31 of  YOUTUBE video from a TV Report (ES) about Barranquilla flooding :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0_ctbptGM