Perspective

Who listens to indigenous pleas?

“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…

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Embracing restorative justice

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…

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How to save Plan Colombia

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…

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