Rural inequality: historical curse or state policy?
Uribe’s economic policy has exacerbated one of Colombia’s most ancient problems, rural inequality. The Agro Ingreso Seguro scandal is not an isolated fluke, but rather just one example of a…
Uribe’s economic policy has exacerbated one of Colombia’s most ancient problems, rural inequality. The Agro Ingreso Seguro scandal is not an isolated fluke, but rather just one example of a…
Tourism can be a blessing or a curse. A blessing when it can be sustainably developed. A curse when a country’s economy is fully dependent on this paranoid industry. The…
President Luis Inacio Lula of Brazil wants Colombians and Venezuelans to start trusting each other again. That is no easy task, even for the Giant of South America. This week…
A cross-border war between Colombia and Venezuela is highly unlikely, but brutal drug wars are already being fought in the border region. The latest row has exposed an escalating conflict…
Colombia these days commemorates the Palace of Justice Siege, a tragic event that occurred over November 6 and 7 1985 in Bogota. A defining event in the history of the…
By ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 5 August 2002, the Colombian government joined the hundreds of countries around the world that support the efforts by…
I have never believed in such a thing as universal jurisdiction. It is a weird concept, product of the intellectual chimeras of elitist scholars, an illogical misconstruction, an affront to…
From Nariño to Bogota to Magdalena, armed death squads are once again imposing a brutal brand of justice with worrying tolerance from the authorities. Alvaro Uribe probably has no direct…
Even though Colombia possesses natural resources such as oil, coal, precious metals and minerals, it is land that has led to many of the problems associated with the natural…