Last week, the Colombian government released information showing that in 2009 Colombia had around 68,000 hectares of coca production. That is the lowest level since 1996, and it represents a…
While I was an exchange student at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, otherwise known as Sciences Po, I took a class called “Intelligence Agencies in Democratic Societies.” My professor was…
Yair Klein is a sinister man. A professional killer, expert in the use of brute force, he is the personification of an angry, dangerous bulldog. Born in 1948, Klein joined…
El Charco is an impoverished riverside municipality of 30,000 in Nariño, a department in south-west Colombia. Many residents live in precarious houses made out of wood, cardboard and bricks, raised…
Noemi Sanin is one of the most resilient politicians in Colombia. The only woman who has ever had a shot at winning the presidency of the country, Ms. Sanin is…
There has been so much talk about elections in Colombia for such a long time, that the fact the country has finally had one seems, well, rather strange. For months,…
Last Friday, Colombia was paralyzed. Everyone was listening to the radio, or watching the news on TV, waiting for the Constitutional Court’s decision on the referendum. Here at Princeton, I…
Sadly, Colombia is infamous for its drug exporting industry. Colombian stories of blood, death and displacement related to illegal narcotrafficking have no parallel in the Western Hemisphere. Recently, I read…
How do you deal with drug gangs? The film “City of God” tells the lives of a group of drug dealers in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. The different…