Stuck University
Every year I write a similar Op-Ed about the deplorable situation lived by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Here is my take on the issue this year.
Read MoreWorst than a War
Colombia is a country divided by geography, history and ideologies. Here great consensus and projects of society have been scarce like snow.
Read MoreThe crime factory
President Santos posited this week that the so-called urban “pots” are crime factories and ordered dismantling them in twenty cities in the country.
But the issue is more complex and it cannot be understood outside the so-called war on drugs.
Read MoreChipre and the pirates
The crisis in Chipre (that small island in the Mediterranean that closed its banks this week after the restrictions imposed by the famous Troika) made me remember the pirates of the XVII century.
Read MoreBack to the middleages
At least 30 years ago, the left started to speak ill about multinationals.
Read MoreThe pope seen from France
France isn’t what one would say the bastion of catholicisme. It’s more the other way around. There, the catholic church has had many headaches, starting by the promulgation, at the beginning of the French Revolution, of the so calles “Civil Constitution of the clergy”, that forced priests and bishops to swear fidelity to the revolutionary people.
Read MoreHessel and Chávez
The last few have been of grief for the left. Last week, at his 95 years of age, died the ex leader of the french resistance, ex diplomatic and the inspirer of the movement of the indignants, Stephane Hessel.
Read MoreThe shepherd
According to the catholic doctrine, the pope is like a shepherd that guides his sheeps on the way to salvation; in this metafore is founded, not only his power, but also his abnegation and his devotion.
Read MoreNegotiating with the devil
More than a good man, Abraham Lincoln was a good president (in the United States but they call him The Hones Abe).
Read MoreThe humility of arrogance
The abdication of the Pope Benedict XVI has been seen as an act of humility.That´s how spiitual and political liders around the wold have put it.
Read MoreVerdadabierta.com mentions the book “Judges without the state”.
The article titled “Justice’s heroes” published in Verdadabierta.com, quoted Dejusticia’s book “Judges without the state”.
Read MoreThe Disadvantages of an Elite Education
Everybody is familiar with the type of advantages an elite school or university brings along (academic preparation, networking, good jobs, ext.). Still, nobody reverses the question: what are the disadvantages of an elite education?
Read MoreFear
I’ve always thought a good happiness indicator is the absence of fear
Read MoreThe paltriness with the kidnapped.
The kidnapped are nothing else than disposable elements in the opinion bid between the government and the guerilla.
Read MoreDiscrimination against victims of state agents.
Last thursday was an ambiguous day for victims of state agents since they were fully recognized by an international official and, yet, remained in the Government’s misunderstanding.
Read MoreFrom Cairo to Teheran
Sixteen years ago, Samuel Huntington published “The clash of civilizations?”, perhaps the most influential political text of the last two decades.
Read MoreCigarette’s black smoke in Congress?
Tonight we will know what kind of smoke is breathed in the colombian Congress. There may be white smoke for two laws that would save the lives of thousands of active or passive smokers that are destined to die of lung cancer and other diseases. But it may also be black smoke coming out of cigarettes from the tobacco companies, who have mounted a powerful lobby against these laws.
Read MoreThe warlords path
In various occasions, President Hugo Chavez has said that since law can be unfair, the Rule of law shall be replaced by the Social State of law and justice.
Read MoreMassive displacement and dispossession
Massive displacement and dispossession is not only a terrible humanitarian tragedy.
Read MoreWell appointed judges
Being appointed to the US Supreme Court is almost as big an honor as being buried in the Panthéon in France. The only difference is people appointed to the Court are still alive.
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