Cumbiamba for Barranquilla
An intersection of four streets is closed off to cars in Barranquilla. A cumbiamba is installed in the center. A wheel of people dancing cumbia of all colors moves around it. Hips move. Foreheads sweat. Skirts wave amid the remains of a December breeze.
Read MorePiketty… and Pickett
Probably the book of the year in social sciences was the text by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, which in certain aspects is a call for egalitarian politics. The Piketty’s central thesis is well-known as many have commented on his book and as such my analysis is very short.
Read MoreAnd the Patients Wait for the Plant…
The year ended and the Senate plenary did not advance the debate about medicinal marijuana. In the session Monday 15 December everything seemed favorable for Senator Galán’s bill.
Read MoreThe Keys of the High Courthouse
29 years after the facts, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights released a sentence in which it found the Colombian State responsible for the military operation for the retaking of the Courthouse.
Read MoreTo Give or Not to Give
The countries with British influence celebrated today the 26th of December Boxing Day.
Read MoreHuman Rights and the Thawing of the U.S.-Cuba Deep Freeze
Much work lies ahead for the thawing of the long freeze between the U.S. and Cuba. Part of this work, if it is to succeed, will involve a broader and deeper assessment of Cuba in all its social and political complexity, and an imagining of what a 21st century relationship between Cuba and the U.S. might look like
Read MoreWhat Are We Going to Eat for the Holidays?
Holiday meals provide us an opportunity to demand more information from the food industry.
Read MorePeace with Impunity for Everyone?
José Manuel Acevedo, who seems to be very well informed, explained in a recent column in Semana.com that a proposal is circulating for a type of blanket amnesty law, that would be looked at by many political leaders, including the president and the attorney general.
Read MoreBetween Idealism and Cynicism
Last Sunday the paper published an article by James Robinson where he argued that it is not possible to modernize the country with programs of land redistribution, as the negotiations in Havana seek to do.
Read MoreNew York: No to Fracking
With the prohibition of fracking in New York state, announces just a few days ago, three things become clear for the debate in Colombia and other countries.
Read MoreCrazy for peace
With the approval of the victims law the debate on peace alternatives for the country opens.
Read MoreHealth: corruption, gree,d and solutions
LUCKILY, THE GOVERNMENT, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Comptroller put teeth into the rotten apple of health. However, they have hardly given a tentative bite because the reasons for the failure go beyond the corruption of a few middle-ranking officials caught red-handed, or the ambition of some indiscreet business man such as those of Saludcoop who did a party with health money.
Read MoreThe myths of
What you should be removed are not the quotas approved in the political reform of 2010, but the myths on which the Government’s proposal is based.
Read MoreThe government and gender equality in political parties
Government actions towards greater gender equality in political parties and in the Congress are quite contradictory.
Read MoreTwo dams and a thousand lessons
Few, except the Indigenous and others, dared to note that these projects were anchored in a context of inevitable armed conflict.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny participates in the forum “Religious beliefs in public management: a form of corruption?”
On Wednesday May 18, Rodrigo Uprimny participated in the forum “Religious beliefs in public management: a form of corruption?” with an oral presentations that tries to answer the question on how to guarantee the separation between church and state?.
Read MoreGunpowder and buzzards
PRESIDENT OBAMA censored the photos of Osami bin Ladens death saying that it could affect national security.
Read More“Slavery is a foundational trauma”
The debate on reparations for black communities has just started, as well as studies on the enslaved and their descendants in the construction of the nation. Interview with historian Alfonso Múnera.
Read MoreSaying armed conflict
A sentence from President Santos and two words in the victims law were enough to revive the ideological broadside against the recognition of an internal armed conflict.
Read MoreThe armed conflict in Colombia
The uribist thesis that affirms that Colombia does not undergo an armed conflict but a terrorist threat against democracy does not stand examination, is empirically false, and is based on conceptual misunderstandings.
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