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Tyranny is not what it used to be.

Transmilenio, the rapid bus transit system of Bogotá, has transformed transportation for almost everyone, but these changes have been more important for the middle class than for low-income folks.

Last November, the Constitutional Court ruled on a case that justly and silently revolutionized the protections for the families of same-sex couples.

One of the most painful developments in Venezuela in the last 25 years is the alarming increase in intentional homicides.

Last Tuesday, a day before the government sells Isagén, President Obama in his last State of the Union Address to Congress, said the following:

Almost everyone knows philosopher Jorge Santayana's aphorism: those that ignore history are condemned to repeat the past.

Perhaps without meaning to, the Mayor Peñalosa's administration gave an unexpected victory to Bogota's graffiti.

To oppose tax increases is easy and popular. But structural tax reform, with emphasis in correcting existing inequalities, is urgently necessary.

Some readers, like the op-ed writer Daniel Mera, attacked my recent op-ed about South Africa and Colombia, in which I argued that it is contradictory to admire Mandela and the South African transition and consider unacceptable the agreement about justice and victims between the FARC and the government.

Human rights advocacy continues to be an issue that awakens intense passions.