In the years I have been writing this column, I have never received such vicious comments as when I talk about the rights of the LGBTI population: when the homophobia of his school extinguished Sergio Urrego's life, or when same-sex couples stopped being second-class citizens and were able to marry in civil unions or marriage.

This bill currently under review in Congress does not seem to prevent actions against peaceful coexistence, but does legalize the stigmatization of some populations.

Neither the land restitution jurisdiction, nor the complaintants who Cabal calls "lazy criminals that don't like to work," nor much less the vulnerable rural workers that occupy the requested pieces of land.

One day, a rumor arrives at your door: 50 people have been killed in a gay club in Orlando and your first reaction is disbelief. When you can see with your own eyes that which seems a horror story, you ask yourself questions full of sorrow.

Hunger and obesity are avoidable in today’s world. They are the result of political decisions that States have made regarding the production, commercialization, and distribution of food.

Sports fans like myself who grew up in the 70s were all fans of the sports kings of that time: Pelé and Muhammad Ali.

The Council of Bogotá recently approved a bill that would allow citizens to avoid the alternate-day travel system for the sum of approximately four million pesos per year. In short, the measure allows people to buy an exception so that they do not have to obey.

"Let's go people damnit, the people don't give up damnit" was sung for more than ten days during the Rural Workers and Ethnic Communities Summit.

The poor debate about the current rural worker and ethnic communities strike shows that we still do not take social movements seriously. The blindspot is not only Santos'– "such strike does not exist," he said during the marches in 2013– it extends to the media, the state, and the academy.