Wrong way to peace
According to a military news webpage, strategicpage.com, the Colombian government has purchased 39 M1117 Guardian Armored Security Vehicles. Despite the obscene amount, Colombian media did not pick up on this…
According to a military news webpage, strategicpage.com, the Colombian government has purchased 39 M1117 Guardian Armored Security Vehicles. Despite the obscene amount, Colombian media did not pick up on this…
The swine flu, AH1N1, has caused an increasing number of fatalities in Colombia. Fabrizzio Antonio Patiño Cáceres is a young graphic artist from Cucuta who publishes in Cucuta newspaper La…
You live in a nice house located in a dangerous neighborhood. The fact is that your neighbors do not like you very much, and they have big guns. You also…
Colombia’s sovereignty will beblatantly violated by the United States very soon. This will officially take place when the militarization process, which is euphemistically called “cooperation agreements”, allowing US troops to use…
The DAS ‘chuzadas’ scandal has continued to evolve. What seemed at first to be yet another infiltration of the government by organized crime has revealed itself as a case of…
An American by birth, grandson to a military dictator, and a Harvard graduate, Samuel Moreno is also the worst mayor that Bogotá has had in about fifteen years. His eighteen months at…
President Alvaro Uribe’s decision this week to authorize Senator Piedad Cordoba to mediate hostage releases by FARC guerrillas has been received with great relief, especially on the part of the…
Last week it became public knowledge that Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez didnot consider that bullfighting and cockfighting should be outlawed because they are cultural and artistic expressions of Colombians. This verdict…
In Colombia, Fénix and Jaque are words that have earned a whole new meaning. No doubt, they will remain in the minds of many Colombians for decades to come, in…