Never before have governments committed to proposing and publishing precise goals regarding emission reductions.

If you want to fulfill the "American dream" and become very rich thanks only to your talent and effort you have to go to Denmark or Sweden, not the United States. That is the conclusion that emerges from the influential work of the Canadian economist Miles Corak about equality and social mobility.

At the end of the year, when increases in the minimum wage are negotiated, discussions about the meaning of wages and work are reignited. A great part of the opposition to increases to wages are related to, for example, the fact that its value serves more as a unit of value for multiple things (like warrants, taxes, compensation payments) and less as a value for the recompense for labor.

An intersection of four streets is closed off to cars in Barranquilla. A cumbiamba is installed in the center. A wheel of people dancing cumbia of all colors moves around it. Hips move. Foreheads sweat. Skirts wave amid the remains of a December breeze.

Probably the book of the year in social sciences was the text by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, which in certain aspects is a call for egalitarian politics. The Piketty's central thesis is well-known as many have commented on his book and as such my analysis is very short.

29 years after the facts, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights released a sentence in which it found the Colombian State responsible for the military operation for the retaking of the Courthouse.

The year ended and the Senate plenary did not advance the debate about medicinal marijuana. In the session Monday 15 December everything seemed favorable for Senator Galán's bill.

The countries with British influence celebrated today the 26th of December Boxing Day.

Much work lies ahead for the thawing of the long freeze between the U.S. and Cuba. Part of this work, if it is to succeed, will involve a broader and deeper assessment of Cuba in all its social and political complexity, and an imagining of what a 21st century relationship between Cuba and the U.S. might look like