Mexico’s cocaine comes from Colombia
Claudia López’s column in El Tiempo had an interesting analysis Tuesday. She states that Colombia is no longer a priority for the United States in Latin America, because the…
Claudia López’s column in El Tiempo had an interesting analysis Tuesday. She states that Colombia is no longer a priority for the United States in Latin America, because the…
In the last several days, the relationship between the Colombian government and the FARC has gone through a dramatic set of changes in tone. Consistency must be regarded as a…
“Oh, y ahora ¿quién podrá defenderme/nos?” (“Oh, who can save me/us now?”) This sentence was popularized by the television quasi-superhero ‘El Chapulín Colorado’ created by the Mexican comedian Roberto Gomez…
The former paramilitary warlords in Colombia who have been extradited to the United States are going to testify very soon and are going to give 60 testimonies. Colombia’s Justice and…
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…