HENRY KISSINGER said that diplomacy was the art of ambiguity, with what gave count -in a ambiguous manner- of the existing gap between what the world of the international relations does and says. But as everything here, there are also exceptions, it means, diplomatics that say what they think with frankness and straight out.

We live in a world in which we know very little of much. I not only refer to life´s big questions: where do we come from? where are we going? how big is the universe? who live in it?. I refer mostly to the little we know about the actual world, the societies to which we are part, the problems we have and the solutions we need.

With their language and ideas, sometimes the columnists contribute to the intolerance that exists in the country.

In Colombial all victims are equal, but some are more equal than others. With this proposition inspired in a similar phrase from George Orwell´s novel Animal Farm, I highlight the enormous moral asymmetry of Colombian society before its victims.

While greater the public impact of a profession, greater the interest of the government to regulate it. That´s why that the doctors for example, have more restrictions to exercise their profession than, let´s say, anthropologists. And the lawyers? With law happens the same thing as with medicine: due to the incidence of lawyers in public life – quality and honesty are indispensable for the proper operation of justice and the exercise and protections of civilians rights – the State sets limits to the free practice of the profession.

The pyramids are those magic objects, talismans that achieved what seemed impossible. For example, there are the 2 miracles that obtained the financial pyramids once they fell down, one, the public debate on the crisis and the other, the critical position towards the actual government.

In an essay titled The Parochial Triumvirat, publicized in mid 1900´s, José María Samper hold that in Colombia there were two republics.