Uribe and Chavez: Specimens of male chauvinist diplomacy
Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez have had yet another heated spat in Cancun. Even if the host president, Felipe Calderon, organises the creation of a “group of friends” to help…
Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez have had yet another heated spat in Cancun. Even if the host president, Felipe Calderon, organises the creation of a “group of friends” to help…
Sadly, Colombia is infamous for its drug exporting industry. Colombian stories of blood, death and displacement related to illegal narcotrafficking have no parallel in the Western Hemisphere. Recently, I read…
Recently my outlook on Colombian politics has tended to be more pessimistic than most people’s. This is probably because I am in the (growing) minority of Colombians who oppose Alvaro…
February 9 was the Day of the Journalist in Colombia. But after recent bad news, such as the closure of news-weekly Cambio, and reports of journalists being terrorized and intimidated…
How do you deal with drug gangs? The film “City of God” tells the lives of a group of drug dealers in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. The different…
A few months ago, I rode Medellin’s San Javier Metro-cable line to the hills above Comuna 13, one of the city’s poorest and most violent sectors. It was my first…
As chances for a re-election of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe become smaller, the President’s closest ally, Juan Manuel Santos, is slowly being pushed forward.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe reiterated at the beginning of the year that his second re-election and third term will ”depend on the Constitutional Court, the people and God our Lord.”…
Colombia has been having its own healthcare debate. If you have been reading Colombia Reports, you will know that two weeks ago the Uribe administration issued a series of highly…