The price of Colombia’s drug war
What is the price-tag of Colombia’s drug war? I started writing my senior thesis at Princeton with that question in mind. Every knowledgeable observer of Colombia is aware that the…
What is the price-tag of Colombia’s drug war? I started writing my senior thesis at Princeton with that question in mind. Every knowledgeable observer of Colombia is aware that the…
In the early 1990s, Colombia became famous for the bounty of US$1,500 that druglord Pablo Escobar put on every policeman’s head. Nowadays, there are no shady characters setting the price…
Some say that 140 characters on Twitter are worth more than a thousand pictures on Facebook. Perhaps. Twitter has become an important vehicle for people to share news, ideas, thoughts,…
Extrajudicial assassinations by government forces, or “false positives”, once again call into question the integrity of the Colombian military and its human rights record. So why has the pursuit of…
Alejandro Ordoñez, Colombia’s inspector general, is an anti-gay, anti-abortion social conservative. That, we already knew. We also knew that he was very sympathetic to the government of President Alvaro Uribe:…
Colombia’s new diplomatic efforts to discredit the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) internationally only demonstrate the failure of domestic diplomacy; the fact that some Colombian diplomats are closely linked…
The next Colombian president should not just enact sensible, effective policies. He or she must also work to clean up the country’s cripplingly corrupt government and strengthen its dangerously weak…
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society Thomas Jefferson Colombia apparently lacks good citizens; therefore, utilizing the…
Arias, Fajardo, Pardo, Petro, Sanín, Santos and Vargas. Those are the last names of the seven most important candidates in Colombia’s upcoming presidential election. If President Alvaro Uribe does not…