Mockus and Serpa team up
Antanas Mockus and Horacio Serpa, who have both repeatedly aimed for the Colombian presidency, but always lost, teamed up to exchange experiences, grievances and ideas for a possible alliance. The…
Antanas Mockus and Horacio Serpa, who have both repeatedly aimed for the Colombian presidency, but always lost, teamed up to exchange experiences, grievances and ideas for a possible alliance. The…
With Juan Manuel Santos set to assume office, today is a good day to be looking towards the future. In many senses, the problems he is inheriting – particularly those…
President-elect Juan Manuel Santos vows to continue Alvaro Uribe’s policies.
For Juan Manuel Santos to call for a government of national unity and reconciliation seems strange. After all, Santos is the heir apparent to Alvaro Uribe, one of the most…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos has repeatedly stated that he wishes to form a government of national unity. While remaining as skeptical about Santos as I am about any politician…
Alvaro Uribe established a new political order in his eight years of government.
The military’s headquarters in Puerto Berrio, Antioquia, is based in an old, colonial-style hotel by the Magdalena River. On some walls hang yellowed pictures of dinners and weddings, events the…
Although Antanas Mockus’ anti-corruption platform helped him gain a large following, it also scared Colombia’s corrupt political establishment into taking action against him. The resulting onslaught, combined with Mockus’ own…
Finally, almost a quarter of a century after his crimes, a judge has sentenced former army Colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega to 30 years in prison. This is the first judicial…