Bogotá, Quito and Caracas: all back to normalcy
Last week our editor suggested, teasingly, that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reading my columns, and that he seemed to disagree. Although the Colombia Reports readership is growing, I…
Last week our editor suggested, teasingly, that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reading my columns, and that he seemed to disagree. Although the Colombia Reports readership is growing, I…
You live in a nice house located in a dangerous neighborhood. The fact is that your neighbors do not like you very much, and they have big guns. You also…
An American by birth, grandson to a military dictator, and a Harvard graduate, Samuel Moreno is also the worst mayor that Bogotá has had in about fifteen years. His eighteen months at…
In Colombia, Fénix and Jaque are words that have earned a whole new meaning. No doubt, they will remain in the minds of many Colombians for decades to come, in…
On Thursday, Colombia’s official statisticians released GDP quarterly data confirming the country’s dismal economic shape. Immediately after, Minister of Economy Oscar Iván Zuluaga gave a press conference insisting that Colombia…
As Johanna Macías entered a court house in Piedecuesta, Santander, a furious crowd threw stones at her. The multitude yelled “Justice! Justice!” as they waved their arms in anger, while…
Former US President George W. Bush once called Alvaro Uribe an “amigo.” Before leaving office last January, Mr. Bush also awarded Mr. Uribe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the…
He is a professional mathematician who prefers jeans to suits and ties. He is 52, ambitious and a “nonconformist”, as The New York Times called him once. He also has…