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Urban agriculture not only provides healthful food, but it also helps to ameliorate food insecurity and build environmental and consumer consciousness.

The balance of powers constitutional reform substituted the discredited Judiciary Superior Council (Consejo Superior de la Judicatura) with a new Judicial Government Council (Consejo de Gobierno Judicial, CGJ), among other things, to achieve greater transparency in the judiciary. However, the medicine could result worse than the disease due to the opaque and questionable manner that the CGJ is being integrated.

There's a German saying that goes: "when foxes preach, be careful with your geese."

Only a month from the climate change global summit in Paris, humanity acts as the proverbial frog in the pot: floating in water that slowly warms, without realizing that we are almost at the boiling point.

In Colombia, the last ten years have been dramatic in terms of peace and rights. The country has faced an enormous flux of demobilized ex-combatants, has seen a dynamic movement of victims grow, and to account for all of that, has witnessed the creation and development of countless official laws and institutions in charge of hundreds of proceedings for victims and ex-combatants.

The solicitor general wants to politically destroy the most important and valuable senator from the left in Colombia.

In my last op-ed I invited readers to imagine peace as an antidote to our perrenial war.

This Sunday's regional elections will probably be the most peaceful of the last four decades. But it is possible, according to experts, that they will be the most corrupt of recent times.

Among the infamies of our internal conflict, one of the greatest, due to it being the most hidden, is the forced disappearance of thousands of people: the students and activists evaporated at the hands of state intelligence bodies under the Security Statute 35 years ago, the "false positives" of the army a few years ago, the social and rural leaders removed by the paramilitaries in the nineties, the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC that never reappeared. All united by uncertain stops and the suffering of families that continue to search for them.