Colombia in denial about errors of paramilitary demobilization
Last week, I wrote a column on Colombia’s urban crime problem. Colombia Reports readers commented on it with interesting points about the causes of the current crime wave. Some wrote…
Last week, I wrote a column on Colombia’s urban crime problem. Colombia Reports readers commented on it with interesting points about the causes of the current crime wave. Some wrote…
Last Wednesday, at around 9.30 in the morning, a military helicopter from Venezuela entered Colombian airspace. For about 20 minutes, the Venezuelans flew over the city of Arauca and a…
Urban crime rates in Colombia are soaring, but the government’s reaction so far is short on real solutions. Defense Minister Silva’s apparent denial of the crime wave and President Uribe’s…
Colombia and Afghanistan are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of drug-funded insurgencies. Both nations have weak central governments and a flourishing narcotrafficking trade thus far unaffected by crop fumigation schemes. Osama…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe launched the idea to pay Medellin students to “snitch” on criminals in their neighborhoods.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the only region of the world where the fertility rate of adolescents has gone up over the last 30 years, as manifested in Colombia’s…
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…
A FARC documentary that portrays the guerrillas as farmers, funding their war against the Colombian state through legal crops, continues to cause controversy.