The Church should abandon its moral superiority and open the mind and heart to see the daily discriminatory acts against the LGBTI community around the world.

We do not really know how many cases the justice system receives and solves every year. We also do not know how many civil, labor or family cases are registered, nor how many cases of certain behaviors like domestic violence are processed in the country. And no one seems to care about the absence of reliable information.

After having beaten its competitors and almost all other species, today humanity's main enemy is itself.

We cannot ignore the rise of artificial intelligence. In the next 10-20 years, about half of paid work will be at risk. How to adapt education and employment accordingly?

In Colombia, climate change and risk mitigation issues do not escape the political struggles in which almost all the issues on the national agenda end up. It is common to see how public policies approaches do not respond to the need of the territories.

The backwardness of Cartagena's social welfare has much of its roots in corruption and the successive institutional crises that it has produced. Except for honorable exceptions, clientelism has been the governance model, which includes bribing oversight authorities to guarantee impunity.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Héctor Abad Gómez. As a good public health worker, he believed that children should be vaccinated, adults should adopt hygiene measures, food should be improved and people should not kill each other fighting. In short, he fought against the two epidemics that kill most people: poverty and war.

If we want to overcome the post-truth era and escape the the polarization that threatens us, Colombia needs a solid but informed public debate; a debate with vigor but without lies, falsehoods or unjust attacks like the one I was subjected to last week by the ex Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez.

In Colombia, only 18 euthanasias have been practiced in two years of regulation. In Canada, however, in just six months of an equivalent standard, more than 800 euthanasias have been performed. A society must be judged not by how it treats the most powerful, but those who are in the weakest conditions.