Columns & Blogs
Columns & Blogs
An Index and a Thumbs Down
By Vivian Newman Pont |
With 50/100 in the Freedom of Expression and Information Index, it's clear that it is not only risky to be a journalist in our country, but also that all of Colombia is poorly informed.
The Santadereanos That Did Not Love Women
By Mauricio Albarracín |
The murder of women occurs before our very eyes, in our neighborhoods and at any hour of the day.
Do We Know What Is Happening with Colombians’ Money?
By Andrés Castro |
Government budgetary decisions, when they are not inclusive, end up costing lives.
Threshold for Peace
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
A recurrent attack towards the so-called plebiscite for peace is that it would be a rigged tool that seeks to force the citizenry to accept the possible peace accord, as it would reduce the threshold to only to 13%, with which only a minority of four million of the 33 million people that make up the electoral census could impose their vision of peace on all of Colombia.
Incendiary Language
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Elides J. Rojas, a Venezuelan journalist, published in January 2013 a list of the insults that Chavismo has used against the opposition. These are only some of them: nation sellers, rogues, thiefs, worms, dogs, flies, insects, vipers, rats, cowards, necrophiles, blood-suckers, drug addicts, mercenaries, quacks, leeches, puppies of the empire, soulless, pro-yankees, satraps, wretches, bacterias, terrorists, war dogs, messengers of death, intellectual dwarves, spirit killers, sackers, child eaters, slavers, grave diggers, carrion, history's garbage, etc.
A Bloody Difficult Problem
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
If you are troubled by the climate summit in Paris, you are not the only one.
A Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change in Latin America
By Camila Bustos |
HIV Policy at a Tortoise’s Pace
By Mauricio Albarracín |
Today more than ever we have the knowledge, technology, and capacity to stop the transmission of HIV and achieve a dignified life for the people that live with the virus. Unfortunately, in Colombia we're going at a tortoise's pace on this issue.
Why Do So Many Latin American Women Still Have Unsafe Abortions?
By Celeste Kauffman |
Latin America is an unfortunate example of this trend, as 95 percent of all abortions performed in 2008 were unsafe, granting it the dubious distinction of the region with the highest unsafe abortion rate in the world, with 31 unsafe abortions per 1000 women.
This Is How Slavery Works in the Twenty-First Century
By Paola Molano Ayala |
Contrary to popular belief, slavery did not end in the nineteenth century, not even at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Judicial Muddle
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
The lack of credibility in the judiciary is due, in large part, to its own legal mess.
