Nonsense and dogma
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In the pile of books I can not read due to lack of time and which I build throughout the year hoping to remove it on vacations, I met with a Dictionary of silliness (Dictionnaire de la bêtise), written by Guy Bechtel and Jean-Claude Carrière (1991). Through more than 6 000 citations, this book gives a good picture of wrong thought, crazy, or that which has simply been defeated throughout history.
Read more The Decree Law of Indigenous People’s Reparations
By Natalia Orduz |
A new law regarding reparations and restitution of territorial rights gives fresh air to the rights of Colombian indigenous peoples.
Read more Politicians and beauty queens that don’t read
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Many years ago I have not seen a beauty pageant. I hate the questions jurors ask the candidates on the coronation day: What is your favorite book?, If you could talk to the Pope, what would you ask for?, How do you world peace could be obtained?, and things like that.
Read more High class ladies
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Four ladies of the high society in Cali, sitting in a luxurious terrace adorned with vases, cushions, palm trees, beautiful views, and, in the background, two black employees, uniformed, carrying silver trays and placed on the side to garnish the stage for a photo on top of which reads: "The most powerful women of the Cauca Valley in the formidable Hollywood mansion of Sonia Zarzur in the Beverly Hills of Cali."
Read more Protests
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In this end of the year the protagonists of democratic life in the country have been the students with their protests.
Read more A pact with nature
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Colombians have an ambivalent attitude towards nature.
Read more Santos and drug legalization
By Mauricio García Villegas |
If you want to reset the native pain caused by the failure of the Colombia selection in its match against Argentina, read the news about the country that appears in international press.
Read more University and social equality
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In the eighteenth century the fate of people depended on their parents: the children of peasant farmers were ineluctably peasant, as well as those of craftsmen were craftsmen and those of nobles were nobles.
Read more On moral and politics
By Mauricio García Villegas |
There are three candidates from the left vying for the presidency of France (2012-2017): François Hollande from the Socialist Party (PS), a favorite to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Luc Melanchon from the Left Front, and Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). I will refer only to the latter.
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