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As the Uribe administration succeeds at weakening guerrillas and paramilitaries through the exercise of military power, rumblings of a post-conflict Colombia have wrongfully started to emerge. Yet, as Colombia moves…

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…

We have to stop Plan Colombia, because of its “high political cost for the country’s dignity”, Colombia’s vice-president Francisco Santos said a few days ago in the country’s daily El…

This week Villavicencio had no water. Even though the city is surrounded by rich water sources, the FARC bombed the water supply, leaving significant parts of the city without access…

The debate about the criminalization of the ‘personal dose’ – the legal amount of recreational drugs a person can possess – is  again the talk of the town. On March…

Yesterday I was at the funeral of a peasant who was killed four years ago, probably because he was a leftist political activist. It took his wife four years to…

Minister of Defense, Juan Manuel Santos, has been at the center of two recent scandals that have pushed the government into apologizing and denying statements made by the minister. Santos’…

“Honored by the king with awards of money and titles, these five institutes of espionage shall ascertain the purity of character of the king’s servants…Having set up spies over his…

A lot has been said these days about Out of Captivity, the book of the three American former FARC hostages Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes. Focus has been…