In a recent op-ed Piedad Bonnett regretfully discusses just how common poor writing is in Colombia.

The Global North may be enforcing strict limitations on coal to curb their emissions at home, but somebody else is eating it up.

The murder of women occurs before our very eyes, in our neighborhoods and at any hour of the day.

With 50/100 in the Freedom of Expression and Information Index, it's clear that it is not only risky to be a journalist in our country, but also that all of Colombia is poorly informed.

Government budgetary decisions, when they are not inclusive, end up costing lives.

A recurrent attack towards the so-called plebiscite for peace is that it would be a rigged tool that seeks to force the citizenry to accept the possible peace accord, as it would reduce the threshold to only to 13%, with which only a minority of four million of the 33 million people that make up the electoral census could impose their vision of peace on all of Colombia.

Elides J. Rojas, a Venezuelan journalist, published in January 2013 a list of the insults that Chavismo has used against the opposition. These are only some of them: nation sellers, rogues, thiefs, worms, dogs, flies, insects, vipers, rats, cowards, necrophiles, blood-suckers, drug addicts, mercenaries, quacks, leeches, puppies of the empire, soulless, pro-yankees, satraps, wretches, bacterias, terrorists, war dogs, messengers of death, intellectual dwarves, spirit killers, sackers, child eaters, slavers, grave diggers, carrion, history's garbage, etc.