If any country wants to lead on internet privacy rights, its surveillance standards must include effective privacy doors that are both necessary and proportionate.

"Nothing is going to happen, because in the Organization of American States (OAS) nothing ever happens." With great skepticism and irony, Colombia´s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Angela Holguin gave this answer when asked how the process of strengthening the Inter-American Human Rights System was going.

The Constitutional Court´s decision seeks to protect the rights of the victims. However it forgot a few things that could make reparations unworkable.

"Time to return" is the name of the government campaign launched in March through Colciencias. It offers Colombian scientists with PhDs who live abroad incentives to come back and contribute to Colombia´s development.

García Márquez had a unequalled talent for capturing that typical Latin American condition of living between myths and realities.

With García Márquez´departure went the last of the Latin American "boom."

In order to understand the effects of winning the battle against informality, we need to consider both what formality does, and whom it serves.

In the last couple of weeks I have been out of the country with little access to the news, and I have been learning about what is happening by reading yeterday´s newspaper.

Last week President and presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos said that he would think twice before giving the order to get rid of FARC commander Timochenko.