"To eat a big chunk of beef is one of the most efficient forms to validate and take advantage of an unjust world," judged recently writer Martín Caparrós in one of the best op-eds I have read in years.

I have never seen such a happy loser.

The entire year what was most discussed in my country was the famous "Balance of Powers Reform." However, its implementation process goes unnoticed, likely because we are a country of short memory.

Urban agriculture not only provides healthful food, but it also helps to ameliorate food insecurity and build environmental and consumer consciousness.

The balance of powers constitutional reform substituted the discredited Judiciary Superior Council (Consejo Superior de la Judicatura) with a new Judicial Government Council (Consejo de Gobierno Judicial, CGJ), among other things, to achieve greater transparency in the judiciary. However, the medicine could result worse than the disease due to the opaque and questionable manner that the CGJ is being integrated.

There's a German saying that goes: "when foxes preach, be careful with your geese."

Only a month from the climate change global summit in Paris, humanity acts as the proverbial frog in the pot: floating in water that slowly warms, without realizing that we are almost at the boiling point.

In Colombia, the last ten years have been dramatic in terms of peace and rights. The country has faced an enormous flux of demobilized ex-combatants, has seen a dynamic movement of victims grow, and to account for all of that, has witnessed the creation and development of countless official laws and institutions in charge of hundreds of proceedings for victims and ex-combatants.