Politics and Human Rights
The challenge is to close the gap between the abuses of each one of these extremes.
Read MoreOut of Place
This is an unpopular column. It is for all those maladjusted people that do not get excited about football (we are only 6% of the Colombian population, according to a survey done by YouGov).
Read MoreLand Restitution: Between Advances and Obstacles
Three years have passed since the Colombian Congress passed the Law of Victims and two and a half years since the land restitution process began. The facts and data show that it is neither an absolute success as the government claims nor a total failure as its critics argue.
Read MoreAdvances in Equality, But Lethal Prejudices
Yesterday on June 28th many around the world celebrated LGBT pride.
Read MoreFootball and Citizen Culture
The recent victories of the Colombian national team not only has underscored noble sentiments of national unity and patriotism, but also the difficulty we Colombians have in celebrating without violence.
Read MoreSantos’ Debts
In his second term, the Santos administration should fulfill its promises to indigenous groups, afro-descendant communities and rural workers.
Read MoreCompulsory Voting without Democracy?
Given that Colombia has been a country historically afflicted with low electoral turn-out, each election cycle commentators argue in favor and against compulsory voting.
Read MoreThank you Juan Ricardo Ortega
The best public officer of Santos’ government and the best tax collector in recent history is leaving.
Read MoreSoccer and Peace
Since we have already defeated the Ivory Coast, I can express without hesitation my admiration for their star Didier Drogba.
Read MoreColombia is Passion
They say that Zeus, the God of the Heavens and Earth, seeing that men were getting bored, giften them their passions.
Read MoreParadisiacal diplomacy
The allegations against retired General Mario Montoya question once more the integrity of Colombian foreign service.
Read MoreThe abuse of words
THE CLOSURE OF THE MAGAZINE Cambio has produced social and political reactions of all kinds.
Read MoreAn unhealthy emergency
THE USE OF THE “SOCIAL EMERGENCY” (a judicial instrument) to address the serious problems of the health system, many of them structural, is very unhealthy for the Colombian democracy.
Read MoreExpiration of terms: a misguided debate
The angry reactions to the release of soldiers due to the expiration of terms are dangerous and obscure other more serious problems.
Read MoreSick democracy
PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO health is one of the most crucial and sensitive issues there is in contemporary societies. That’s why it arouses so much controversy and interest in public opinion.
Read MoreReferendum sentence
The referendum has its days counted. Carried by the weight of its own vices, it is in freefall in the Constitutional Court while fulfilling the only law that it has not infringed: that of gravity.
Read MoreMaster’s and PhD degrees
In Colombia, agreements to ensure academic mediocrity without leaving the oratory of excellence are common. Especially now that obtaining master’s and PhD degrees became fashionable.
Read MoreAnalysis announced by Rodrigo Uprimny in his op-ed.
The flaws and legal misunderstandings of the Inspector General’s concept regarding presidential re-election.
Read MoreThe Inspector General and electoral guarantees
IN MY PREVIOUS OP-ED I criticized the Inspector General’s concept in regards to the re-election referendum due to his analysis of the breach of the funding caps in the collection of signatures. Several readers asked me to discuss other defects of the concept.
Read MoreStudents as informers
I AM convinced that one of the worst faults of our society is indifference, if not complacency, when facing criminals.
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