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The last few have been of grief for the left. Last week, at his 95 years of age, died the ex leader of the french resistance, ex diplomatic and the inspirer of the movement of the indignants, Stephane Hessel.

According to the catholic doctrine, the pope is like a shepherd that guides his sheeps on the way to salvation; in this metafore is founded, not only his power, but also his abnegation and his devotion.

More than a good man, Abraham Lincoln was a good president (in the United States but they call him The Hones Abe).

The abdication of the Pope Benedict XVI has been seen as an act of humility.That´s how spiitual and political liders around the wold have put it.

One thing is pride, and another one insolence. The proud person will not only be irritated for the insults of others but will also be ashamed by his own mistakes. The same thing happens with the countries have reasons to feel proud: they admit their own mistakes.

A couple of weeks ago President Santos congratulated the Minister of Justice for setting off a project to banish from the juridical order the unuseful and obsolete laws. If we repeal those laws, Santos said, we could have a "much more gobernable and efficient country"

The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, only receives around a thousand dollars of salary (less than two millions of pesos). He gives the rest of it, 90% of his salary, to social and political causes.

One year and a laf, the former president Uribe was accusing of being disloyal. Today, he accuses him of traidor and swine. How can such an argument between two heads of state? Uribe's swaggering and the persistance of his political aspirations are, without a doubt, part of that explanation.

Eagles have a view ten times stronger than humans, the sense of smell of a dog is fifty times more effective than the one of men and whales and elefants hear thousands of time better than a person. However, by the facto of being ration, human beings consider ourselves better than animals.

For over 15 years I have been writing and talking good about the colombian justice branch Even after all its tricks and defects, I have believed that the Judicial Branch is the more part of the State that one could more easily rescue.

I love to travel through the colombian roads. I enjoy passing from one mountain chaine to the other one; crossing the big rivers that come from the Massif; feeling the changes of climate, the smells of the tropic and watching the contrasting and amazing geography of these country.

This country has been conceived and imagined from the slopes of the Andes. From there, the politica elites, have comfortably governed, without knowing very well what's going on in the los lands that surround the three national mountain-chains; just like, centuries ago, it was the imperial authorities from Madrid that managed these colonial territories did the same.