Bridges and land
When President Lleras Restrepo ordered the construction of the footbridge on 26th Street with the National University to prevent students were hit by cars, many students refused to use it with the argument that it had been built by a government that exploited the working class. There is some of that blind and intransigent opposition in the attitude that senators Jorge Robledo and Ivan Cepeda, from the “Democratic Pole”, have adopted against the policy of land restitution conducted by the present Government.
Read MoreSpokesmen for Antioquia
Part of the Antioquia elite is unhappy with the government of Santos.
Read MoreNostalgia of slow time
I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is turn on the computer, check my email, and read the headlines of national and international press.
Read MoreThe president and the peasants
Juan Manuel Santos is not the first Colombian president who wants to modernize the country through land restitution to peasants.
Read MoreThe three features of democratic justice
On Wednesday this week, at Universidad de los Andes, an academic event was held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Kaleidoscope of the justices in Colombia.
Read MoreThe country of doctors
A friend from another country comes to have lunch at my house.
Read MoreOur haunted reality
Jorge Elias Gonzalez, the famous shaman hired to stop the rain in Bogota, said that before acting he prays for a few minutes and asks the “god father” to give him power to divert the clouds.
Read MoreNo passing in double line?
Travelling on Colombian roads has ceased to be a pleasant experience.
Read MoreThe evils of Caldas
Everywhere politicians promise things they do not comply with.
Read MoreNonsense and dogma
In the pile of books I can not read due to lack of time and which I build throughout the year hoping to remove it on vacations, I met with a Dictionary of silliness (Dictionnaire de la bêtise), written by Guy Bechtel and Jean-Claude Carrière (1991). Through more than 6 000 citations, this book gives a good picture of wrong thought, crazy, or that which has simply been defeated throughout history.
Read MoreEl Espectador comments the column “The Blindness of the Economists” written by César Rodríguez
Cesar Rodriguez’ column is reviewed as a discussion of the current global economic crisis in the article ” The economists crisis?”
Read MoreThe art of imitating
The countries, as people do, imitate others. Especially the great ones, the most powerful.
Read MoreIn a historic decision, the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that same-sex couples must be granted the same rights as heterosexual common law marriages.
Unconstitutionality lawsuit presented by DeJuSticia, Colombia Diversa and others.
Read MoreThe blindness of the economists
¿How many economists saw the Global Recession coming, the deepest in our lifes? Practically No One.
Read MoreReagan And Obama
When we inspire in the past – Ronald Reagan said, refering to the people from the United States – is when we can live for the future.
Read MorePorcelain Dolls
The ideal image of the female body as a sack of bones is so spread, that there are already networks dedicated to promote Anorexia and Bulimia as a life style.
Read MoreThe enormous challenges of a good man
Since World War Two this is the first time the Unites Stated doesn’t have the capacity of imposing, that it had before.
Read More¿Individual Humanitarian Special Agreements?
Colombians want Kidnapped to be liberated. For that reason it would be logic for us to support the Government when it gives incentives for the Guerrilla members to scape with the kidnapped people, as the strategy has made some liberations possible. But the matter is not that simple, as the strategy politically risky and unstable.
Read MoreAbout politics history
During holidays, I was reading texts about latinamerican politics history. I am not going to use this column, dear reader, for developing a synthesis of what I read, neither to write an essay about democracy in Latin America. What I am going to do is to show the impressions those texts left me about our own political regime.
Read MoreHypocracy and Reelection
Adjusting himself to the prototype of a Cynical, Uribe pretends us to believe that reelection is not with him; are the people who are claiming his permanence in the power.
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