Saving Colombia’s imperfect healthcare system
Colombia has been having its own healthcare debate. If you have been reading Colombia Reports, you will know that two weeks ago the Uribe administration issued a series of highly…
Colombia has been having its own healthcare debate. If you have been reading Colombia Reports, you will know that two weeks ago the Uribe administration issued a series of highly…
Last Wednesday, at around 9.30 in the morning, a military helicopter from Venezuela entered Colombian airspace. For about 20 minutes, the Venezuelans flew over the city of Arauca and a…
What is the price-tag of Colombia’s drug war? I started writing my senior thesis at Princeton with that question in mind. Every knowledgeable observer of Colombia is aware that the…
Alejandro Ordoñez, Colombia’s inspector general, is an anti-gay, anti-abortion social conservative. That, we already knew. We also knew that he was very sympathetic to the government of President Alvaro Uribe:…
Arias, Fajardo, Pardo, Petro, Sanín, Santos and Vargas. Those are the last names of the seven most important candidates in Colombia’s upcoming presidential election. If President Alvaro Uribe does not…
Last night I saw Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado on TV, making predictions for 2010 for all the twelve signs of the zodiac. I am a Sagittarius, so according to…
Arriving at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport is an interesting experience. We Colombians are always thrilled about getting home, so oftentimes people clap right after the airplane lands. After waiting…
In Colombia, the end of the year always marks the beginning of an interesting event. No, it is not Christmas. If you thought it was el día de los inocentes…
Everybody knows that Colombia would have a more fluid relation with the United States if Senator John McCain had won the presidency last year. With the Democratic Party in control…