Don Mario and Karina, managers of peace
Don Mario’s announcement a few days ago that he wants to be a peace manager and is willing to demobilize 6000 of his boys and girls struck me as odd.…
Don Mario’s announcement a few days ago that he wants to be a peace manager and is willing to demobilize 6000 of his boys and girls struck me as odd.…
While most of the press coverage surrounding the Summit of the Americas has focused on the pictures of Presidents Obama and Chávez shaking hands, Álvaro Uribe, without too much media…
The recent news that Colombia’s most wanted man was captured made headlines around the world. But so what? The entities benefiting from this capture are the US establishment and the…
Since 2000, Plan Colombia has sought to eliminate cocaine production through massive aerial spraying of coca fields with weedkiller. Now, 9 years later, we have seen not only the environmental…
Uribe is set to jet off this week to Caracas where he will meet the Venezuelan leader. Not unlike Romulus and Remus, the two “brothers” will face each other with…
The state of the justice in Colombia may be reflected in a black joke circulating at the time of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic’s trial: “What do you do…
Bolivia’s daily La Razón had an interesting feature on cocaine production in the country, last weekend. La Razón interviews ‘Julio’, a Bolivian drugs trafficker in jail, who has connections…
Barack Obama will make his first trip south of the U.S. border as president when he visits Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas in mid-April. The Summit…
It is widely conceived that Uribe has split Colombia’s history in two. His supporters, on the one hand, mention the weakening of the FARC, the demobilization of the right-wing paramilitaries…