Education should create cultural capital and encourage social mobility. However, when rich and poor study in separate schools and there is great difference in the quality of their formation, school only serves to perpetuate social hierarchies. Results of a careful study of the case of Bogota.

IN THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE, Octavio Paz says that simulation is one of the forms of habitual behavior of Mexicans.

When my children were young, a few years ago, we used to have a conversation called "what did not exist when .... "

This week marks 30 years of the failed military coup of February 23, 1981 in Spain, most known as the coup of 23-F.

This week's arrest of lawyer Ramon Ballesteros reminded (once again) that lawyers are a key part in the actions of the mafia and the paramilitaries.

COLOMBIA is a country that has been conceived, organized and managed from the mountains.

Some months ago I wrote a column in which I questioned the attitude of certain leaders of the Polo Democrático (political party) who criticize the project of land restitution of the current government ...

In Egypt, there's a traditional song that ends with these words: "Fortunately we have Islam. "

In my school there was a history professor which argued that the Colombian national anthem was the most beautiful in the world after the Marseillaise.

LAST JANUARY 12, before the victims of the slaughter of Tucson, Arizona, President Obama gave one of the most moving speeches of his career (full of eloquent speeches.)

We columnists are constantly looking for amazing facts or ideas that help us draw the reader out from their own lethargy of the views he reads every day.

In this country economic development, as almost everything else, is uneven.