Columns & Blogs

It is not the most brief volume.

People living in the streets are citizens with full rights and are our neighbors in the city. 

When will we stop talking about the daily news and turn to the urgent discussion?

The reality of sexual violence in Peru during the armed conflict shows in a raw and terrifying way how war demanded combatants to become machos, men capable of raping women without remorse, guilt, or ethical impediments.

Faced with the challenge of urbanization, the United Nations has convened Habitat III, where political leaders will meet in October in Ecuador to negotiate and promote commitments under the so-called New Urban Agenda.

Expresident Uribe has raised two essential objections to the peace agreements: that those who commited atrocious crimes do not go to jails and that they can be elected to public office. 

A month ago, CM& said that out of 800 Colombians who appeared in the leaked Panama Papers, three confessed to the DIAN that they were saving money in Panamanian businesses that did not pay taxes.

The title of this op-ed does not come from the latest news about the strike in Chocó. I borrow it from a column published in El Espectador in 1954. The author, a 27 year old journalist with aspirations to become a writer, was sent to Quibdó to cover another protest against the central government. But what Gabriel García Márquez wrote at the time could be published today without changing one single comma. 

If we keep ignoring taxes, we will continue to remain outside the most important public policy discussion of our times. 

A strong objection to the peace process is that some guerrilla members will not be sent to jail. But we cannot forget that the benefits of jail time are doubtful.

Children are not the property of the government or of the State, said the Inspector General during a confrontation with the Minister of Education. And he is right.