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Rich garbage, poor garbage
If we don’t want to throw the world to the garbage, we have to learn to recicle it.
Read MoreThe National Park Tayrona, or environmental policy through Twitter
The environmental policy of the Government look as capricious as the tweets. For the third time in only two months, the ministers and the president are improvising mends to the abuses that the social networks and the media denounce.
Read More“The responsibility of thinking”
That is the title of a very valuable book compiled by Alfredo Rocha and published in 2008 that collects 21 texts of well known academics that wrote to rend homage to Guillermo Hoyos Vásquez, one of the most recognized filosofers in Colombia, who unfortunately died last week.
Read MoreStop having a hard time! You are in one of the happiest countries of the world (again)
The last Win-Gallup survey on the (in)happiness in the world counterattacks. Colombia is placed in the first happiness place of the world.
Read MoreVenezuelan constitutionalism
The unedited situation that has presented itself in Venezuela due to the sickness of Chávez has caused a bitter constitutional in the neighbor country. To some, the decision of giving continuity to the living government until the possession and oath of Chávez is a clear fraud to the Constitution. It has been even been spoken of power usurpation and Coop d’Etat. To others the decision of preserving the popular will expressed in the elections in wich Chávez was elected is not violating the Constitution but honoring it.
Read MoreOn crisis and spells
Con los análisis de fin de año Y los propósitos de 2013 se reitera desde varios medios la crisis de las grandes potencias. Los periódicos de otras latitudes alegan que los europeos quieren olvidar 2012 y prepararse para enfrentar la realidad del año que comienzan. Anuncian el tijeretazo a las cuentas públicas portuguesas, el arreglito…
Read MoreHirshman, conflict and democracy
Francisco Gutiérrez y Posada Carbó are right in their last colums when they highlight the notable work of Albert Hisrschman, the heterodox economist who recently passed away and that knew Colombia very well.
Read MoreThe new colombian nationalism
One of the things I’ve always loved from Colombia is the low intensity of its nationalism. In other countries, such as Argentina and Mèxico, the nationalism goes so deep that it is visible in any cultural manifestation and it has been constantly used as an instrument of political mobilization, with high components of dogmatism and not fes cases of persecution of dissidence, often called “stateless”. In Colombia, instead, the belonging to the nation has nat traditionally generated such an acute feeling.
Read MoreRojas Operative
It is already hard to watch Operación E. in Spain. Only a few theaters are still showing, late at night, the movie based in the story of José Crisanto, the peasant who took care of the son of Clara Rojas, born in the middle of her kidnapp in the jungle, for even months.
Read MoreThe right to laziness
That’s how the french socialist Paul Lafargue called an ironic and provocative essay published in 1880, in wich he opposes te fervor for work that both the right and left wings demonstrated in his time.
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