Seeing President Santos in one screen promising "historic" actions against climate change at the UN, en in another his Environmental Minister promising to dismantle environmental controls through the creation of "express" licenses, I remembered García Márquez's speech about Colombian contradictions when he presented the Sabios Mission report.

The so-called reform for the rebalancing of powers, advanced by the Santos administration, is a macro-reform, as it seeks to modify many aspects of the Constitution, but it lacks a clear direction.

Reading the pre-agreements between the government and the FARC, which were published this week, I had the impression of having seen the government plans of the past few presidents of Colombia.

Vivian Morales' principal argument for a referendum on adoption by same-sex couples is based on an incomplete idea of democracy: democracy as majority rule.

Few economic sectors have as much power as mining and Big Pharma.

It is a challenge for the State to successfully implement the transparency and access to public information law.

Given the evidence of the arduous situation of people discriminated for exercising non-normative sexualities, the law appears as the quickest option in Colombia to guarantee their possibility to enjoy life fully.

According to the Precautionary Principle (PP), the government ought to reconsider its decision to use fracking.

After seeing the last debate between Senator Iván Cepeda and former President Álvaro Uribe I found myself thinking of the following Jules Romain quote: "Elite spirits debate ideas, ordinary spirits debate events, and mediocre spirits debate people."