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Writing and Thinking

In a recent op-ed Piedad Bonnett regretfully discusses just how common poor writing is in Colombia.

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New Documentary on Coal and Human Rights in the Global South

ā€œPromises of Lavenderā€ explores the stories of individuals and communities affected by coal in India, Colombia, South Africa and Egypt, with a focus on the violations of their rights by the industry.
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Coal Is Not in Decline; It Is Thriving in the South

The Global North may be enforcing strict limitations on coal to curb their emissions at home, but somebody else is eating it up.

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An Index and a Thumbs Down

With 50/100 in the Freedom of Expression and Information Index, it's clear that it is not only risky to be a journalist in our country, but also that all of Colombia is poorly informed.

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The Santadereanos That Did Not Love Women

The murder of women occurs before our very eyes, in our neighborhoods and at any hour of the day.

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Do We Know What Is Happening with Colombians’ Money?

Government budgetary decisions, when they are not inclusive, end up costing lives.

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Threshold for Peace

A recurrent attack towards the so-called plebiscite for peace is that it would be a rigged tool that seeks to force the citizenry to accept the possible peace accord, as it would reduce the threshold to only to 13%, with which only a minority of four million of the 33 million people that make up the electoral census could impose their vision of peace on all of Colombia.

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Incendiary Language

Elides J. Rojas, a Venezuelan journalist, published in January 2013 a list of the insults that Chavismo has used against the opposition. These are only some of them: nation sellers, rogues, thiefs, worms, dogs, flies, insects, vipers, rats, cowards, necrophiles, blood-suckers, drug addicts, mercenaries, quacks, leeches, puppies of the empire, soulless, pro-yankees, satraps, wretches, bacterias, terrorists, war dogs, messengers of death, intellectual dwarves, spirit killers, sackers, child eaters, slavers, grave diggers, carrion, history's garbage, etc.

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