Columns & Blogs

The creativity evidenced by drug traders and consumers reminds us that prohibition got it all wrong by making “a drug-free world” its main objective. 

Several buses of people wearing weekend clothes stopped in the highway at the entrance of San Basilio de Palenque.

Democracy demands that we accept the results of ballot boxes, even when we don't agree with them.

Visiting the San Francisco de Asís hospital in Quibdó is enough to understand why the tax reform is right to include taxes destined to public health.

The homophobic mobilization wants to use the changes in the peace accord to eliminate any mention of the LGBTI population in the text and to introduce judicial elements that reduce the equality in rights that we have won in democracy. 

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A new initiative for indigenous leaders in the Global South. 

The analyses on the plebiscite have focused on explaining where and why the NO won. They have ignored the greatest worry: that the majority of voters did not vote

The current situation in the country is dramatic: the pacific solution to our armed conflict is very close...and yet so fragile.

The massive march last Wednesday confirms that a wide bloc for peace is consolidating: students, indigenous people, farmers and citizens of all ages that converge on an expedited and reached by concesus peace, whether they voted on October 2nd or they voted in favor or against the accords.

What is wrong in a democracy where a clear majority stays at home on the day of the most important vote of a generation?

I write to women and men who in good faith believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ.