According to the World Justice Project published this year, Colombia ranks 79th out of 99 in criminal justice effectiveness.

I was writing this op-ed when an acquaintance asked me:

San Andrés is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Colombia. In 2011 the island accounted for 22% of national tourism, some 530,000 tourists, according to data presented by UN Periódico. For this reason, when people think of San Andrés, it conjures up images of crystalline beaches and its famous "sea of seven colors." However, in San Andrés there has been a dispute between the parts of the island given to tourists and commercial interests and the Raizal population's ancestral territory.

The students of Mexico and Nigeria painfully remember the importance and precariousness of the right to education.

It is important for civil society organizations and communities to understand the way in which companies act, and to design strategies to avoid their undue influence in public policy decisions.

The well-deserved recognition and the necessary protagonism of victims has created, nevertheless, serious risks like oversimplification, political manipulation, deceit, demagogy, and a lack of fulfillment and respect for their rights.

Alejo Durán, the first king of vallenato, and for many the greatest vallenato musician, not only left us the legacy of his great music, but also a lesson on dignity and ethics that we ought to remember in this time of so many indignities.

Around these days we commemorate the anniversary of two events that have had impacts on the world's course.

"The Constitutional Court wants all Colombians to eat lobster," says Alejandro Gaviria in Semana.