When President Lleras Restrepo ordered the construction of the footbridge on 26th Street with the National University to prevent students were hit by cars, many students refused to use it with the argument that it had been built by a government that exploited the working class. There is some of that blind and intransigent opposition in the attitude that senators Jorge Robledo and Ivan Cepeda, from the "Democratic Pole", have adopted against the policy of land restitution conducted by the present Government.

Part of the Antioquia elite is unhappy with the government of Santos.

I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is turn on the computer, check my email, and read the headlines of national and international press.

Juan Manuel Santos is not the first Colombian president who wants to modernize the country through land restitution to peasants.

On Wednesday this week, at Universidad de los Andes, an academic event was held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Kaleidoscope of the justices in Colombia.

A friend from another country comes to have lunch at my house.

Jorge Elias Gonzalez, the famous shaman hired to stop the rain in Bogota, said that before acting he prays for a few minutes and asks the "god father" to give him power to divert the clouds.

Travelling on Colombian roads has ceased to be a pleasant experience.

Everywhere politicians promise things they do not comply with.