While I was an exchange student at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, otherwise known as Sciences Po, I took a class called “Intelligence Agencies in Democratic Societies.” My professor was…
Contrary to what we have been hearing so far this year, the drug war in Colombia’s second-largest city Medellin shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, there is reason…
Any country in the world, even industrialized nations, would be proud to have some of the candidates currently running for the Colombian presidency. Yet this unprecedented situation will amount to…
Yair Klein is a sinister man. A professional killer, expert in the use of brute force, he is the personification of an angry, dangerous bulldog. Born in 1948, Klein joined…
In recent years, Colombians have been successful in eroding some negative stereotypes about their country, mostly related to drugs and violence. Nevertheless, one (not necessarily negative) stereotype – that Colombia…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos, the unofficial heir of Colombia’s current Head of State Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Security policy, promises a continuation of Uribe’s firm hand.
While visiting Cali for Easter weekend, some friends and I took a day trip to Popayan to observe the Good Friday processions. While passing a curve on the Pan-American highway,…
El Charco is an impoverished riverside municipality of 30,000 in Nariño, a department in south-west Colombia. Many residents live in precarious houses made out of wood, cardboard and bricks, raised…