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Ingrid Betancourt's intention to sue the State produced an avalanche of reactions against her.

In my op-ed last week I said it was absurd that the World Cup referees saw less well than the match viewers.

Suppose your son is playing the final of an intercollegiate soccer championship and when everything is ready to get started you find out the referee is missing an eye. How would you react?

Every four years, after the presidential elections, we Colombians participate in a sort of collective rite where hope is renewed.

SIMON BOLIVAR is attributed the following sentence: "Ecuador is a convent, Colombia is a university, and Venezuela is a barracks." Now that we are in the Bicentennial celebration and on the eve of the election of a new president, perhaps it is worth wondering the value of the Liberator's phrase.

Last Tuesday, the Third Specialized Judge of Bogota was ready to read the condemnatory sentence against Colonel Plazas ...

THE HOPE OF LIFE IN COLOMBIA is 75 years. This means that a citizen can participate in 14 presidential elections over its existence.

A GOOD way to end with a reasonable rule is to require its compliance relentlessly, even in the most absurd situations.

IN ENGLAND, BEHIND the humblest of judges is always the powerful British Navy.

IN COLOMBIA many people believe that atheists are people who are closer to evil than what believers are.

JUAN MANUEL SANTOS SAYS that the cradle of his campaign in which someone imitates the voice of President Uribe, calling to vote for him, is nothing else than "pure sly."

People who never hesitate produce me distrust. Thats why I like Nietzsche's aphorism that says, "its not doubt but certainty what makes people crazy."