Columns & Blogs

Should the Santos administration have consulted afro-descendent communities before presenting the National Development Plan before Congress? 

New "For and Against" session by the newspaper @ElEspectador. Lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito and columnist Antonio Caballero argue their positions.

The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.

The court hearing tomorrow, in which the Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonil (also known as Bonil) could be convicted, evinces the Correa administration's growing intolerance against satire and civil liberties.

One of the problems with the discussion about a referendum on the peace accord in that many give it at least two different meanings, which are linked but are important to distinguish, to debate the issue more productively and find better solutions.

According to the government, the program "Merit Pays" (Spanish "Ser Pilo Paga") is an educational revolution.

With the Colombian Constitutional Court's sentence about bullfighting in Bogotá, the matter becomes a citizen debate.

With the Government announcement about the scholarship program for low-income students, social mobility and inequality has appeared once again in public debate in Colombia.

Civil society pressure from the bottom-up, rather than top-down treaty obligations, is the only way to get governments to act on global warming.