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…
Juan Manuel Santos seems poised to become Colombia’s next president. A number of opinion polls last week confirmed that he is the most popular candidate out there, and given President…
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…
Noemi Sanin is one of the most resilient politicians in Colombia. The only woman who has ever had a shot at winning the presidency of the country, Ms. Sanin is…
One often hears that Colombia’s complex geography has condemned the country to fragmentation and political instability. Mountains, hills and rivers divide the country into many regions with distinct identities and…
There has been so much talk about elections in Colombia for such a long time, that the fact the country has finally had one seems, well, rather strange. For months,…
I am fascinated by Colombia’s national obsession with security, and the current transformation of the Colombian criminal justice system. I am curious about the urban psyche, and the collective fear…
Following Constitutional Court’s decision to block a referendum that would have allowed President Alvaro Uribe to run in this year’s Presidential elections, observers and officials in Colombia and abroad have…
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…