Colombia's indigenous tribes are being surrounded and cut off from food supplies by criminal gangs made up of right-wing paramilitaries that disbanded under a government peace plan, rights experts said on Wednesday.

Very interesting article: There are 3,000 food carts in the city; average annual take is $7,500 to $14,000; The most profitable food-cart item is coffee, which commands a 500 percent to 1,000 percent markup; coffee carts are run mostly by Afghans; Bangladeshis;Vietnamese run smoothie carts; Nut carts are manned by Brazilians and Colombians.

Swimming with sharks, divers revel in waters around remote Colombian island. With lethargic grace, the hammerhead shark slices through the blue gloom. It flicks its T-shaped head this way and that, surveying its underwater domain with the surety of knowing that the food chain comes to an abrupt end in its mouth.

In Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Philippines, an empanada (Portuguese empada- a different dish) is essentially a stuffed pastry. The name comes from the Spanish verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread. Usually the empanada is made by folding a thin circular-shaped dough patty over the stuffing, creating its typical semicircular shape. Empanadas are also known by a wide variety of regional names (see the entries for the individual countries below).It is likely that the empanadas in the Americas were originally from Galicia, Spain, where an empanada is prepared similar to a pie that is cut in pieces, making it a portable and hearty meal for working people. The Galician empanada is usually prepared with cod fish or chicken. Due to the large number of Galician immigrants in Latin America, the empanada gallega has also become very popular in that region. Middle Eastern cuisine to this day has similar foods, like simbusak (a fried, chickpea filled "empanada") from Iraq.