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The most beautiful definition of affection between friends I know I read it in Aristotle: "Friendship, says the philosopher, is a soul caught between two bodies." Following the logic of this definition, when one of these bodies has a disease, the shared soul of the relieved friend suffers almost equally.

There was an Ecuatorian president whose motto was "Death to the Constitution and long life to religion."

Hope is an ambiguous feeling.

I've always loved the Hungarian proverb: "If your sword is too short, take one step forward."

In 1757, in France, Damiens was caught after he tried to kill Louis XV.

The fight is not between Bogota and Medellin, but between progressive and reactionary "paisas". This short paper re-enacts the story of an Antioquia that punctuated progress and modernity in the midst of a prudish country, and the other Antioquia which has lately been at the forefront of the extreme right. Who will prevail?

When President Lleras Restrepo ordered the construction of the footbridge on 26th Street with the National University to prevent students were hit by cars, many students refused to use it with the argument that it had been built by a government that exploited the working class. There is some of that blind and intransigent opposition in the attitude that senators Jorge Robledo and Ivan Cepeda, from the "Democratic Pole", have adopted against the policy of land restitution conducted by the present Government.

Part of the Antioquia elite is unhappy with the government of Santos.

I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is turn on the computer, check my email, and read the headlines of national and international press.

Juan Manuel Santos is not the first Colombian president who wants to modernize the country through land restitution to peasants.

On Wednesday this week, at Universidad de los Andes, an academic event was held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Kaleidoscope of the justices in Colombia.

A friend from another country comes to have lunch at my house.