Gringo convicted for child porn
A Bogota judge sentenced a U.S. citizen to 15 years in jail for child pornography. The sentence followed a three year ordeal where he was acquitted by a judge in…
A Bogota judge sentenced a U.S. citizen to 15 years in jail for child pornography. The sentence followed a three year ordeal where he was acquitted by a judge in…
Tourism is thriving in Colombia but instead of celebrating, people should be asking themselves whether this is really a positive development. There is no denying that tourism is a blessing…
President Alvaro Uribe, an Opus Dei adherent, visited the Vatican yesterday. Uribe was seeking the Pope’s opinion on the political realities of the country. This meeting occurred against the backdrop…
Uribe’s lunch in the summit of the Americas with Obama was anything but a diplomatic victory. It only demonstrates the fallacies of Colombian diplomacy when compared to the United States…
The recent news that Colombia’s most wanted man was captured made headlines around the world. But so what? The entities benefiting from this capture are the US establishment and the…
The state of the justice in Colombia may be reflected in a black joke circulating at the time of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic’s trial: “What do you do…
It is widely conceived that Uribe has split Colombia’s history in two. His supporters, on the one hand, mention the weakening of the FARC, the demobilization of the right-wing paramilitaries…
“Oh, y ahora ¿quién podrá defenderme/nos?” (“Oh, who can save me/us now?”) This sentence was popularized by the television quasi-superhero ‘El Chapulín Colorado’ created by the Mexican comedian Roberto Gomez…
Colombia, like any other country, has a history of taking political gambles, but the country appears to have become addicted to these gambles.The losses lead to riskier bets, which appear…