Avatar: The daily struggle of Colombia’s indigenous communities
At 4AM on the morning of January 30, 2010, three helicopters and a Kfir combat plane attacked an area in the northern part of the Colombian department of Chocó, where…
At 4AM on the morning of January 30, 2010, three helicopters and a Kfir combat plane attacked an area in the northern part of the Colombian department of Chocó, where…
The Colombian government’s response to the latest report critical of the country’s record on human rights was to shoot the messenger rather than address the criticisms. Such a response, widely…
The upcoming parliamentary elections will result in the election of a Congress with little to no legitimacy. A sizable number of votes will go to neo-paramilitary candidates, while a small…
Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez have had yet another heated spat in Cancun. Even if the host president, Felipe Calderon, organises the creation of a “group of friends” to help…
February 9 was the Day of the Journalist in Colombia. But after recent bad news, such as the closure of news-weekly Cambio, and reports of journalists being terrorized and intimidated…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe reiterated at the beginning of the year that his second re-election and third term will ”depend on the Constitutional Court, the people and God our Lord.”…
Latin America and the Caribbean is the only region of the world where the fertility rate of adolescents has gone up over the last 30 years, as manifested in Colombia’s…
In the early 1990s, Colombia became famous for the bounty of US$1,500 that druglord Pablo Escobar put on every policeman’s head. Nowadays, there are no shady characters setting the price…
Colombia’s new diplomatic efforts to discredit the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) internationally only demonstrate the failure of domestic diplomacy; the fact that some Colombian diplomats are closely linked…