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In Colombia there exists a an old political culture that, trying to avoid tyranny, became negligent with anarchy. This has made more difficult the construction of an efficient state with enough administrative capacity to enforce the law. Let me explain myself.

Three weeks ago I wrote that 33 children below the age of five had starved to death this year in Colombia.

Our high courts have a very low representation of women and there is no institutional effort to reverse this tendency, which makes the head of the judiciary a space mainly composed of men.  

Until a couple weeks ago, I had not heard of the narco-corridors of Colombia.

The FBI lost the security battle against Apple, which refused to breach the privacy of a terrorist's cellphone, but in the digital age everyday new risks emerge. 

The Finnish educational model is an ideal system. However for other systems to move close to it, institutional changes do not suffice, material and cultural conditions must be addressed.

The Constitutional Court should define if in Colombia there is marriage equality, which is, if same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples; or if they can only aspire to formalize their union and their family with a different contract, a type of "solemn union." 

If the media, the Comptroller's Office, and citizens want to avoid the next plundering of public finances, they should concentrate on the endless lawsuits that multinational announce against the state based on FTAs.  

Colombia seems to be in a crucial moment in its history; a moment where anything is possible; from the best to the worst.

A referendum against equality breaks with the Constitution's basic structure and seeks to collectively humiliate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.

The 23rd of March passed without notice. It has been tumultuous weeks where not only we must avoid the tedium of uncertainty, but above all those of my generation.

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States made a mistake with coca producing communities, as they not only incentivized an illegal market that turned them into part of a criminal network, but also never addressed the causes of the increase of drug trafficking in rural areas, and responded with simplistic solutions: bullets or eradication.