A decade ago, when my grandfather was 20 year old, Colombia had trains, a national postal system, a public health system, and a national telecommunications company; prestigious higher education was almost exclusively in the hands of the state, public services were provided by state-run companies, and there weren't tolls on the highways because the state had built them.

Reforms are less impassioned than revolutions. To exclaim from a microphone "Everyone get out!" generates more interest than a detailed proposal on how to reform the judiciary.

The War on Drugs has been, principally, a war against vulnerable populations. Among its victims are many low-income women and their families.