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Colombia’s need for compromise to end conflicts
Apr 1, 2013

Colombia’s need for compromise to end conflicts

posted by Adriaan Alsema

As Colombia seems to be moving away from using arms to resolve conflict, it is important to strengthen how we debate since that will be our tool to “defeat” our  Full Article »

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Colombia Reports’ readers meeting
Mar 19, 2013

Colombia Reports’ readers meeting

posted by Adriaan Alsema

Colombia Reports will hold its first ever readers meeting Wednesday. The purpose of this meeting is to come to reader-endorsed changes in this website’s editorial policy.

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Colombia Reports: 5 years of improvization
Feb 9, 2013

Colombia Reports: 5 years of improvization

posted by Adriaan Alsema

Five years ago today I bought a domain called “colombiareports.com” and did my first-ever publication. Today, that blog is the biggest English-language news website in Latin America and I am  Full Article »

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Jan 29, 2013

Restarting Colombia’s stagnated tourism growth

posted by Adriaan Alsema

The Colombian government is set to announce international tourism grew in 2012. Before you start celebrating, the real growth is way lower than Latin America as a whole, meaning Colombia  Full Article »

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Nov 12, 2012

How to break Medellin’s worst habit: Violence

posted by Adriaan Alsema

Medellin seems on the brink of a new period of extreme violence. No immediate solution to these waves of violence exists, but unless we resign ourselves to being a regular  Full Article »

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Oct 31, 2012

Letter from residents of Medellin’s Comuna 13

posted by Adriaan Alsema

While Medellin mayor Anibal Gaviria prefers to come up with any number showing a declining murder rate and ignores ongoing forced disappearances and an increasing number of cases of forced  Full Article »

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Oct 22, 2012

Colombia peace deal not yet in sight

posted by Adriaan Alsema

The peace process between Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas couldn’t have begun more clumsily than they did last week. With the future of the country at stake, the warring parties  Full Article »

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Oct 3, 2012

Outcome of Venezuela elections not likely to affect Colombia

posted by Adriaan Alsema

The impact on Colombia of upcoming presidential elections in Venezuela is going to be small as key issues are likely to continue to improve no matter who wins. The election  Full Article »

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Sep 25, 2012

How to spin ‘state-sponsored mass murder’

posted by Adriaan Alsema

Imagine the massive scandal that would hit your government if your people, for example through the media, found out that your own security forces have been murdering compatriots to cook  Full Article »

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Aug 30, 2012

Do we really trust Colombia’s politicians and guerrillas to deliver peace?

posted by Adriaan Alsema

Any peace talks between the government and rebel group FARC must involve civilians since neither government nor FARC can count on much credibility among the Colombian people. The fact that  Full Article »

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