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Mocoa

By Mauricio García Villegas | Apr 8, 2017

I think it was Jacob Bronowski, the 1970s celebrated popularizer of scientific knowledge, who said that nature cannot be dominated by force, but by knowledge. What happened in Mocoa has much to do with that: a lack of preparedness that originated in a lack of knowledge.

By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) | Apr 7, 2017

Atul Gawande, the notable surgeon and writer, published recently "The Heroism of Incremental Care", a tremendous chronicle of the true heroes of his profession: those who save the most lives. He well could have written about the heroes of tragedies such as the landslide of Mocoa

By Isabel Pereira Arana | Apr 4, 2017

The drug policy reform movement, albeit with its internal diversity, has one main premise: prohibition of drugs has failed to achieve its goal of reducing both demand and supply for illicit substances.

By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | Apr 2, 2017

There were no tanks attacking the civil institutions, which characterized previous coups. But in Venezuela there was a coup d'état, which intends to be judicially legalized, but that nevertheless is a democratic rupture.

By Mauricio García Villegas | Apr 1, 2017

In every society there must be clarity about the difference between what is inside and what is outside the political debate. The decisions that the Government makes in economic, educational or health matters, for example, make part of the first.

By Helena Durán | Mar 31, 2017

In Colombia, getting citizens to decide about mining in their territory has not been easy.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) | Mar 31, 2017

Despite the interests and passions at stake, we must accept and debate with arguments the decision of the inhabitants of Cajamarca to ban mining and protect the water and agricultural interests of their municipality.

By Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta | Mar 29, 2017

The Montes de María subregion in the Colombian Caribbean has been living for ten years what is now called postconflict: the absence of formal armed actors in the territory and the government's commitment to guarantee rights and non-repetition.

By Mauricio Albarracín | Mar 29, 2017

Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.

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