Holiday meals provide us an opportunity to demand more information from the food industry.

José Manuel Acevedo, who seems to be very well informed, explained in a recent column in Semana.com that a proposal is circulating for a type of blanket amnesty law, that would be looked at by many political leaders, including the president and the attorney general.

Last Sunday the paper published an article by James Robinson where he argued that it is not possible to modernize the country with programs of land redistribution, as the negotiations in Havana seek to do.

With the prohibition of fracking in New York state, announces just a few days ago, three things become clear for the debate in Colombia and other countries.

Colombia counts with the necessary tools to confront the enormous impunity facing sexual violence in the armed conflict. It is time to put them into practice.

Rather than addressing inequality, the dismantling of race conscious and affirmative action policies in the US has further entrenched it, leading to increased poverty, lower home ownership, and lower university enrollment of black Americans.

The Guantanamo detention center symbolizes the way in which a democracy should never fight democracy.

One of the invitees to the UN meeting about climate change reflects on the feeling of failure for a handful of soft regulations on one hand and the hope that 1% of the governments will follow through with their commitments on CO2 emission reductions.

The UN Rapporteur for the rights of these peoples says that they can help mitigate the impacts of global warming and ensures that it is time for Governments to include them in their discussions.