Posted by Pablo Rojas Mejia | Feb 10, 2011 | Guests
For the past five years, experts and observers have been warning about the growing power of drug-trafficking gangs that emerged from the remains of demobilized Colombian paramilitary groups. The gangs were basically recycled...
Read MorePosted by Pablo Rojas Mejia | Feb 3, 2011 | Guests
The 2011 World Economic Forum, an annual summit of global political and business leaders held in Davos, Switzerland, officially ended last week. The Colombian delegation included Juan Manuel Santos, who made his first visit to...
Read MorePosted by Pablo Rojas Mejia | Dec 29, 2010 | Guests
The past decade has been a dismal one for the global War on Drugs. In Mexico, cartels fighting the authorities and one another have claimed over 30,000 victims in four years. In Afghanistan, powerful heroin traffickers continue...
Read MorePosted by Pablo Rojas Mejia | Dec 23, 2010 | Guests
By most measures, President Juan Manuel Santos has had a triumphant first five months in office. On his watch, Colombia has made some tangible progress on its two most politically salient challenges, unemployment and crime. Both...
Read MorePosted by Pablo Rojas Mejia | Dec 10, 2010 | Guests
Twitter, Uribe-era abuses and WikiLeaks. Today’s biggest story has all the elements of a juicy 21st-century Colombian political scandal. But what will be the impact of the latest accusations of top-level involvement in illegal...
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