Educational apartheid in Bogotá
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Education should create cultural capital and encourage social mobility. However,  when rich and poor study in separate schools and there is great difference in the quality of their formation, school only serves to perpetuate social hierarchies. Results of a careful study of the case of Bogota.
                Read more         Simulate what we are not
By Mauricio García Villegas |
IN THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE, Octavio Paz says that simulation is one of the forms of habitual behavior of Mexicans.
                Read more         Technology and democracy
By Mauricio García Villegas |
When my children were young, a few years ago, we used to have a conversation called "what did not exist when .... "
                Read more         The two Spains
By Mauricio García Villegas |
This week marks 30 years of the failed military coup of February 23, 1981 in Spain, most known as the coup of 23-F.
                Read more         Who controls lawyers?
By Mauricio García Villegas |
This week's arrest of lawyer Ramon Ballesteros reminded (once again) that lawyers are a key part in the actions of the mafia and the paramilitaries.
                Read more         Geography and the Constitution
By Mauricio García Villegas |
COLOMBIA is a country that has been conceived, organized and managed from the mountains.
                Read more         Egypt and the Polo Democrático
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Some months ago I wrote a column in which I questioned the attitude of certain leaders of the Polo Democrático (political party) who criticize the project of land restitution of the current government ...
                Read more         Egypt’s crossroads
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In Egypt, there's a traditional song that ends with these words: "Fortunately we have Islam. "
                Read more         Against national anthems
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In my school there was a history professor which argued that the Colombian national anthem was the most beautiful in the world after the Marseillaise.
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