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The revelations of these weeks showed that the campaigns of Santos 2010 and Zuluaga 2014 received concealed funding from Odebrecht, which allowed them to violate the electoral caps.

In 2010, presidential campaign year, candidate Antanas Mockus designed his political proposal based on simple ideas like these: "not everything is fair game" and "public life and resources are sacred."

As eloquent as the last OAS report on the extinction of democracy and human rights in Venezuela has been the silence of many progressive Latin American sectors, including human rights organizations.

"The faggots come and organize right in front of the Church...because being a faggot is...they are faggots, I am sorry but they are faggots...This is what they are." These are the words that Pastor Miguel Arrázola used to speak of journalist Lucio Torres.

On March 8 we celebrated woman's day, which seeks to eradicate discrimination and gender violence. In the context of this celebration, it may be worth remembering that Colombia could have been a world vanguard in recognizing the political equality of women.

What if we knew who killed Jorge Eliécer Gaitan ? Or if we had access to the private papers of General Rojas Pinilla? And if we could find the documents that explain the systematicity in the deaths of the Patriotic Union?

Why do we believe clearly false news? Why do millions think climate change does not exist? Why is it that so many fathers and mothers do not immunize their children, believing the myths about the curses of the vaccines? How do voters around the world and all conditions choose populist rulers who lie in the light of day?

Moonlight, the winner of the Oscar for best film, and Miss Maria: the skirt of the mountain, the Colombian documentary by Rubén Mendoza, tell two necessary stories to better understand the lives of those who live and feel a sexuality other than the heterosexual one.

In 2016, I was attending a book launch in Manila pertaining to the Communist peace process in the Philippines, when the topic of amnesty came up. I realized that while there was scant awareness of the intricacies of the topic, amnesty was critical to the resolution of the conflict but it was also a potential landmine.