The truce in Medellin will not last long
How do you deal with drug gangs? The film “City of God” tells the lives of a group of drug dealers in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. The different…
How do you deal with drug gangs? The film “City of God” tells the lives of a group of drug dealers in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. The different…
A few months ago, I rode Medellin’s San Javier Metro-cable line to the hills above Comuna 13, one of the city’s poorest and most violent sectors. It was my first…
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.”…
Colombia has been having its own healthcare debate. If you have been reading Colombia Reports, you will know that two weeks ago the Uribe administration issued a series of highly…
Last week, I wrote a column on Colombia’s urban crime problem. Colombia Reports readers commented on it with interesting points about the causes of the current crime wave. Some wrote…
Last Wednesday, at around 9.30 in the morning, a military helicopter from Venezuela entered Colombian airspace. For about 20 minutes, the Venezuelans flew over the city of Arauca and a…
Urban crime rates in Colombia are soaring, but the government’s reaction so far is short on real solutions. Defense Minister Silva’s apparent denial of the crime wave and President Uribe’s…
Colombia and Afghanistan are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of drug-funded insurgencies. Both nations have weak central governments and a flourishing narcotrafficking trade thus far unaffected by crop fumigation schemes. Osama…
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…