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.

A new law regarding reparations and restitution of territorial rights gives fresh air to the rights of Colombian indigenous peoples.

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.

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."

In this end of the year the protagonists of democratic life in the country have been the students with their protests.

Colombians have an ambivalent attitude towards nature.

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.

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.

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.