Columns & Blogs

Cartagena is promoted as the crown jewel of Colombia's tourist destinations.

One thing is to take advantage of and reinterpret someone else's work, but it is another to make a mistake in a bibliographic citation, and it is entirely different to plagiarize. 

During the colony and the majority of the nineteenth century, the central plaza was almost a holy place.

Food jumped from the pages of cookbooks to political and legal headlines.

It surprises me the little generosity of Alejandro Ordóñez with the accord on the Special Peace Jurisdiction, even when much of what has been agreed coincides with some of the recommendations he made a few weeks ago.

Security cameras have not proved their efficacy to combat crime, but they have proven their use in invading privacy and unjustly imprisoning people.

How does the proposed transitional justice accord between the Colombian government and the FARC compare with the South African model?

Many people have said it: it's an imperfect peace deal, but it distances us from perfect war. The statement attached read by the guarantor countries is historic both symbolically and for what it means.

Some have criticized the "special jurisdiction for peace" agreed upon by the government and the FARC because it is not perfect, and for example, does not inevitably establish prison terms for those responsible of atrocious crimes.

In 1966 Camilo Torres justified his loyalty to the guerrilla saying that "legal paths have been exhausted" and thus the only viable option was armed struggle.