The heritage of a false positive
Yesterday I was at the funeral of a peasant who was killed four years ago, probably because he was a leftist political activist. It took his wife four years to…
Yesterday I was at the funeral of a peasant who was killed four years ago, probably because he was a leftist political activist. It took his wife four years to…
Minister of Defense, Juan Manuel Santos, has been at the center of two recent scandals that have pushed the government into apologizing and denying statements made by the minister. Santos’…
“Honored by the king with awards of money and titles, these five institutes of espionage shall ascertain the purity of character of the king’s servants…Having set up spies over his…
A lot has been said these days about Out of Captivity, the book of the three American former FARC hostages Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes. Focus has been…
A year ago today, the Colombian military attacked a camp in Ecuador, killing FARC leader Raúl Reyes. The attack led to a bilateral crisis between Colombia and Ecuador that remains…
Colombia´s relationship with its smaller neighbor Ecuador was ignored until the military operation against FARC commander Raul Reyes on March 1st, 2008 on Ecuadorian territory that sparked a diplomatic crisis…
The Colombia Action Network (CAN), a group of U.S. activists opposing U.S. intervention in Colombia’s 45-year-old violent conflict, will remember those killed in the Colombian attack on the Ecuador-based camp…
A recently released video reveals the abuse that a freshman police has to undergo as part of a seeming right of passage ritual. In the video, the naked policeman is…
Santa Claus (with a Chinese appearance) seems to have arrived almost two months late in Colombia, but most ministers still followed Uribe to sit on his lap. The president of…