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Many Colombians must be annoyed by the confrontation between the Supreme Court and the President over the election of the Attorney General. Yet, the issue is very important.

Last week, Stanley McChrystal, US military commander in Afghanistan, sent President Obama a report which concluded that the situation was getting worse every day. In it, he warned Obama about insurgency growth, population mistrust of troops, and the necessity of increasing the number of soldiers in order to avoid failure.

Some columnists have called those congressman that changed political party as “travestis”. Unfortunately, it is an innappropriate term

President Uribe’s authoritarian personality has multiple synthoms. Sometimes it’s a flash of anger while in other its an abusive government style.

For those of us who have studied for a long time the abyss between deontology and ontology, “Paper Norms”, written by Mauricio García Villegas, constitutes a priceless contribution. “Paper Norms” is nothing else but the culture of noncompliance conducted in Colombia.

In the Social Contract, Rousseau wrote a lapidarian sentence concerning the serious effects extreme inequality has on democracy.

Many years ago, in Medellín, there was a placard in the bridge of St. 33 that said ” If this isn’t progress then what is it?”

Anyone who has visited Buenos Aires may have noticed that the city is full of Colombian tourists and students