The French philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard proposed a suggestive metaphor about the difficulty a society has in recording the truth and remembering a period of mass atrocities, like the genocide by the Nazis.

In Colombia the radio has greatly developed, encouraged perhaps by difficult geography and poor communication among regions. Lacking highways, Colombians have communicated through radiowaves.

"The rich don't need the law because they already have money and power; it is the poor that need the law," once said Albie Sachs, the lengendary South African activist that advised Mandela in the peace dialogues and became judge of the first post-Apartheid Constitutional Court.