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Edward Snowden ended the internet's age of innocence a year ago when he revealed the NSA's secret: it has access to everyone else's secrets.

There is an excess of tax benefits, farmland and certain capital gains are not adequately taxed, public functionaries steal part of taxes paid and there is a high level of tax evasion.

Should 10th and 11th grade students learn to do derivatives and integrals if they dislike it and will not use it again? Would it not be better for these students to instead redirect their efforts to gain basic knowledge of statistics, which in today's world is seemingly necessary in order to be a competent adult?

After seeing two magistrates discharged, the sentencing of a ex-minister and listening to the judges that made these decisions explain themselves on the radio-- all in a matter of weeks-- critics have accused the High Courts of allowing themselves to be trapped by politics. That is to say that the judiciary has become politicized, a negative development. However, what does it mean for the judiciary to be politicized? Is it actually harmful?

All countries have recorded in their histories a great event that serves as the founding myth for their nation.

In the past week many have discussed the Colombian Inpector General Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado's political fate.

When a reporter asked Neymar if he had been discriminated against based on his skin color he replied, "Never, neither on nor off the playing field. Because I'm not Black, right?"

The global South should avoid being drawn away from green clean energy sources by the false promises of natural gas and fracking.

Some pundits, especially via twitter, have argued that the real reason that Dejusticia, as an institution, and I, personally, have filed this lawsuit against, alongside other organizations, the reelection of the Inspector General Ordóñez is because Dejusticia would have had annual contracts totaling 700 million Colombian pesos (350,000 USD) with Inspector General Maya, which would have been eliminated by Ordóñez.

Could it be that football needs some sort of Luther-like figure that can try to reform and above all make more ethical the Papacy of FIFA, even at the risk that it could lead to a veritable football schism? It's a metaphor worth exploring.

Every year I spend a few days in the Aguadas (Caldas) municipality, in a small village called Salineros located on the peak of a mountain; it provides, to my knowledge, the best view of the Central mountain range.

In Havana peace negotiations make progress while in Colombia there is no ceasefire.