I want to argue for the importance of talking about religion as part of advocacy work.  Not just to defend the freedom to practice it, not just in the context of religious war, and not just because religious organizations might be strategic allies.  But rather, because faith in a God or gods is often a crucial part of the social worlds in which we work.

There are at least five differences that separate the republican right of Santos and the extreme right of Uribe. The first one, is the peace process.

In his opinion piece last Sunday, William Ospina said that if he had to choose between two evils, Santos and Zuluaga, he prefers Zuluaga because he is the lesser evil.

The global community of human rights advocates and scholars rightly criticizes the spread of gated communities worldwide, patrolled by private security and in which the elite find protection.

We have all lived and suffered through the disproportionate focus on the topic of peace in the debates as the only and most important difference between the candidates. Little has been said about other substantive topics, like health care, education or the environment that are as vital as peace and in the end help realize it.

Tomorrow June 5th is the anniversary of the Edward Snowden revelations about Obama's surveillance program. All the while, in our country we have had so much illegal wiretapping going on we could win an award. All the wiretapping makes some people blush. But why is there so much scandal surrounding some young techies who allied with political leaders want to create a society where there is nothing to hide?

The ambiguities and contradictions of Uribism on peace. It is both paradoxical can tragic: the most popular and politicized topic in this election, peace, is at the same time the one that is less discussed.

The presidential elections will be decided by undecided voters: the abstainers who doubt whether or not to leave their homes on June 15th, those who voted blank in the first round, the independents who voted for Peñalosa, the people on the Left who were left without a candidate and the conservatives respectful of the law who, with good reason, hesitate in following Marta Lucia jump toward Uribism.

There are elections that are somewhat routine; they don't entail major changes. But there are other that are decisive because they effect the destiny of a society for decades.