COLOMBIAN COMEDIAN 'RECEIVES THREATS´FOR FAT JOKES

A Colombian journalist claims via Twitter comedian and model Alejandra Azcarate received threats for making fun of overweight women in her weekly magazine column.

Director of adult magazine SoHo and columnist of newspaper Semana, Daniel Samper Ospina, tweeted Wednesday evening: "I know that they threaten @LaAzcarate, that they want to throw acid in her face and blind her: I express my solidarity with her."

CARTAGENA TO HOST CORPORATE TOURISM CONFERENCE

Colombia's northern coastal city Cartagena is likely to host an important corporate tourism conference next year.

"Successful Meeting of the Caribbean and the Islands" [SMCI] will bring together tourism businesses from Latin American, the Caribbean and North America. An estimated 6,500 people are expected to participate in the event held in October 2013.

Proexport, the government agency in charge of promoting tourism, pushed Cartagena as the host city of the conference and says SMCI decided on the tourist destination after an inspection of the city.