If Americans took less drugs, would violence really decrease in Colombia?
“We live next to the world’s largest drug consumer, and all the world wants to sell them drugs through our door and our window,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon lamented in…
“We live next to the world’s largest drug consumer, and all the world wants to sell them drugs through our door and our window,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon lamented in…
Georgetown University has seen an outcry against Álvaro Uribe for his alleged institutional and human rights violations and against the university for appointing the former president as a guest lecturer, especially…
The news that Colombian former president Alvaro Uribe was to be appointed as a distinguished scholar at Georgetown University surprised many, especially his Colombian critics. But what is more surprising…
Juan Manuel Santos is, in many ways, Alvaro Uribe’s chosen successor. After a drawn-out and somewhat secretive internal struggle, Uribe favored Santos over Andres Felipe Arias to become the “Uribista”…
Those of you glued to the television or the internet two weeks ago to see if Miss Colombia would be crowned Miss Universe for the second time in the country’s…
Theory: Plato was in pre-Columbian America! Suggestion: We should start looking in Santa Marta, Colombia, for his footprints! The above claims may sound ludicrous. Nevertheless, I am quite certain I…
Two score and seven years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On August 28, the 47th…
Caucasia is the kind of backwater we’d like to pretend doesn’t exist. It is too hot for puffy-eyed women to do much except sit by the road, selling limp pieces…
Colombia, one of Latin America’s oldest democracies, is an excellent example of a country reclaimed from conflict and disorder by rule of law and criminal justice system reforms. Plagued by…