Columns & Blogs

"Time to return" is the name of the government campaign launched in March through Colciencias. It offers Colombian scientists with PhDs who live abroad incentives to come back and contribute to Colombia´s development.

García Márquez had a unequalled talent for capturing that typical Latin American condition of living between myths and realities.

With García Márquez´departure went the last of the Latin American "boom."

In order to understand the effects of winning the battle against informality, we need to consider both what formality does, and whom it serves.

In the last couple of weeks I have been out of the country with little access to the news, and I have been learning about what is happening by reading yeterday´s newspaper.

Last week President and presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos said that he would think twice before giving the order to get rid of FARC commander Timochenko.

I learned to read the newspaper with Daniel Samper Pizano, with his columns and his delicious articles.

A State Council decision issued on December 11, 2013, which is very important but that went unnoticed, leads one to conclude that we should suspend fumigations using glyphosate because it violates the precautionary principle.

Two years after being removed from office by Inspector General Ordóñez, the State Council decided in favor of former Medellin mayor Alonso Salazar. His case and the arguments he made could set an important precedent with important repercussions.

Instead of automatically accessing the tiered price that Abbott had globally committed to, for Colombia as well as Ecuador, it took the mobilization of HIV patients, public health advocates and government intervention to finally get the price they were in theoretically entitled to.

Every day I like good documentaries more and more; I like them almost as much as I like good movies.

Amnesties and other dilemmas of how to obtain justice in times of transitions are far from being a concern of only a few violent countries in the Global South, and unfortunately, they are far from being a topic of the past.