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Lessons from the Judicial Strike

Although on Friday courts re-opened, the judiciary's structural problems persist without real solutions: judges and stuff, alongside government bodies, are responsible for improvising the implementation of reforms.

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Invisible Tragedies

Last week I wrote about my father's death who was run over by a motorcyle that shattered his skull when he was walking on San Juan street in Medellín.

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The Country of the Future

Witnessing here in Brazil the political upheaval— the image of Lula being interrogated, the preparations for a Sunday march against Dilma and a counter-protest by the PT— I'm reminded of the slogans coined by locals to make sense of this country of extreme grandeur and misery.

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For Territorial Peace, Territorial Justice

We are already hearing more elaborate proposals about how the implementation of the agreements with the FARC should work.

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Bogotá Suspicious of Everyone

Everything seems to indicate that since Enrique Peñalosa entered as Bogotá's mayor, we are all suspect of having committed a crime.

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Colombia’s Exploding Tourist Industry

Tourism in Colombia has grown significantly and seems only to accelerate: in the last decade the number of tourist visa entries have doubled, with an increase of 16.3% in only the last year.

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“Why Does TransMilenio Not Work?” (Remastered Version)

The discontent of users is growing: in 2015 the satisfaction dipped to 19% and 89% of riders thought that the service had not improved.

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Rethinking our Political Cartography

Even if one tries, it is difficult to imagine a political division more irrational than the one we have in the Middle Magdalena region and in part explains its precarious governability and its acute problems of violence.

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The Other Victims

My father, Jaime García Isaza, died last Tuesday in Medellin, after being run over by a motorcycle on San Juan Street.

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