Columns & Blogs

Former President Uribe resorted to a forbidden speech (slander) to attack a speech protected in democracy (satire), which Daniel Samper Ospina uses in his columns.

The Antioquia that the former president Uribe says is offended with the satire of Samper Ospina is the uncompromising and unscrupulous Antioquia.

The slander of former President Uribe against Daniel Samper Ospina shows that satire is becoming more and more uncomfortable, as more left and right-wing populist multiply.

The proposals asking to remove the application of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to military and civilians ignore the complex dynamics of the armed conflict.

Clean air, fresh water, food production, climate regulation, biodiversity protection and carbon storage are just a few of the ecological benefits we receive from nature. Should we pay for those services? How do we value them? Should we pay for the fact of preserving or because it helps humans?

The Constituent Assembly proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will consume what remains of democracy in Venezuela. It will also make Maduro a dictator who will control all the powers of the state. The international community must vigorously oppose it.

In Colombia we are parochial and self-absorbed. We need a way of dealing with our individual and social smallness, other than religion, maximalist ideology or contempt for others.

Given the inability of the national government to organize development in order to make mining compatible with the environment and other economies, popular consultations are a democratic step to try to do so.

The experiences of Uruguay, Costa Rica and Ecuador show that it is possible and useful to apply innovative approaches to drug-related incarceration. However, they also highlight the limits of these programs and their failure to prevent further criminal activity.

We live between the frenetic present of political activity and the unattainable future of preachers, without any of these time frames allowing us to anticipate the country that we will have in three or four decades.

Not all people who have been deprived of their liberty should have been in prison in the first place. In 2013, for example, the State Legal Defense Agency was handling 13,385 lawsuits for unjust deprivation of liberty.

The results of the plebiscite to approve the Peace Agreement showed us that it is time to take religion seriously and to dispute the right's political predominance in spiritual matters.