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Dangers without a warning

There are high risks with minimal concerns, like when you fall in the bathroom, and low risks with high concerns, like a terrorist attack. In Colombia there is a very high danger accompanied by a minimal concern: every year, accidents on public roads take the lives of 5,000 bystanders.
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“Ask the President …”

Accountability and transparency, a requirement to avoid corruption, is an activity of daily openness that every official must fulfill. Even when it comes to giving answers that are not worthy of a public entity, let alone the one responsible for ensuring transparency, such as the Office of Procurator-General.
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An immature Constituent Assembly

The Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro does not seek to forge a pact between opposing forces, but seeks to crush the opposition through an antidemocratic mechanism, which is also unconstitutional. The international community and even authentic Chavismo should oppose it.
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Militant hope

Hope should not only be cautious but militant: young people around the world should mobilize against politicians like Trump who are willing to damage the world in which they, the young, will live tomorrow.
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21st century socialism, dictatorship or rebellion?

The Venezuelan government is advancing in its plan to dismantle the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution. And it is the 21st century rebels who defend democracy and human rights against the heirs of 21st century socialism who abdicated their democratic promise.
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Clarifications on the fast-track process

Even though the Court's sentence on the fast-track process is legally wrong and makes the implementation of the Peace Accord more difficult, it is important to understand its scope. A poor understanding of the sentence could increase its negative impact.
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Frantz and war

Frantz, a film by the French director François Ozon, deals with the absurdity of war and the terrible fate of societies entangled in it.
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The Constitutional Court and a minimalist peace

The Constitutional Court's ruling on the fast track process could mean a minimalist peace for Colombia: a peace that brings the end of the FARC without the reforms needed to build a modern state.
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More opportunities and less jail for women with drug offenses

93% of these women are mothers, 52% are head of household, and many have not finished high school; that is, they are poor women. Although the Peace Agreement contemplated a different criminal treatment for these cases, to date no bill has been filed before Congress.
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