I learned to read the newspaper with Daniel Samper Pizano, with his columns and his delicious articles.

Two years after being removed from office by Inspector General Ordóñez, the State Council decided in favor of former Medellin mayor Alonso Salazar. His case and the arguments he made could set an important precedent with important repercussions.

A State Council decision issued on December 11, 2013, which is very important but that went unnoticed, leads one to conclude that we should suspend fumigations using glyphosate because it violates the precautionary principle.

Instead of automatically accessing the tiered price that Abbott had globally committed to, for Colombia as well as Ecuador, it took the mobilization of HIV patients, public health advocates and government intervention to finally get the price they were in theoretically entitled to.

Every day I like good documentaries more and more; I like them almost as much as I like good movies.

Amnesties and other dilemmas of how to obtain justice in times of transitions are far from being a concern of only a few violent countries in the Global South, and unfortunately, they are far from being a topic of the past.

Senators Bernardo Ñoño and Musa Besaile, from Córdoba, recieved 140,000 and 145,000 votes respectively in this past election.

As the use of consultations has grown alongside strong citizen rejection of extractivism, there has also been an increase of government and business efforts to stop them.

When I was a law student, many countries in Latin America were governed by military juntas. But in Colombia, the president was a civilian and we regularly had elections. The professors in my department saw that contrast as a reason to exalt the civilian tradition of our people.