Columns & Blogs

Since we have already defeated the Ivory Coast, I can express without hesitation my admiration for their star Didier Drogba.

They say that Zeus, the God of the Heavens and Earth, seeing that men were getting bored, giften them their passions.

The 26th of June, the United Nations celebrates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

With Santos, the mandate for peace, democracy and hope rose to victory. Since mandates must be fulfilled and hope easily turns into disappointment, the goverment has just a short period of time to extract the lessons from the election and begin to make changes.

Forced displacement does not only occur in places where the state has collapsed. It also happens in national contexts where the State does have the institutional capacity and favorable judicial frameworks to protect human rights.

The new peace agreement between the government and the FARC is a historic event, but it is just the beginning of a negotiation that affects us all, especially the millions of victims. What was agreed upon, what is missing and what are the biggest challenges pending?

In the last electoral round, Óscar Iván Zuluaga won in almost every territory from Cartagena to Caucasia and from the central mountain range to the top of the western mountain range.

Amidst the presidential elections, the mobilizations over water and the environment have begun to grow, revealing the government's profound silence.

Social scientists use a concept called "critical juncture" that shows how much is at play in next Sunday's elections, despite what those who are promoting abstention or blank voting say.

I want to argue for the importance of talking about religion as part of advocacy work.  Not just to defend the freedom to practice it, not just in the context of religious war, and not just because religious organizations might be strategic allies.  But rather, because faith in a God or gods is often a crucial part of the social worlds in which we work.

There are at least five differences that separate the republican right of Santos and the extreme right of Uribe. The first one, is the peace process.

In his opinion piece last Sunday, William Ospina said that if he had to choose between two evils, Santos and Zuluaga, he prefers Zuluaga because he is the lesser evil.