Is tourism benefiting Colombia?
Tourism is thriving in Colombia but instead of celebrating, people should be asking themselves whether this is really a positive development. There is no denying that tourism is a blessing…
Tourism is thriving in Colombia but instead of celebrating, people should be asking themselves whether this is really a positive development. There is no denying that tourism is a blessing…
Time to talk! With the recent appointment of the newest High Commissioner for Peace, and with FARC’s announcement of a new unilateral liberation, a narrow window of opportunity for a…
President Alvaro Uribe, an Opus Dei adherent, visited the Vatican yesterday. Uribe was seeking the Pope’s opinion on the political realities of the country. This meeting occurred against the backdrop…
Last week, journalist Daniel Coronell broke a story regarding the business and investing holdings of President Uribe’s two sons, Tomás and Jerónimo. In the story, Coronell offered proof that the…
Uribe’s lunch in the summit of the Americas with Obama was anything but a diplomatic victory. It only demonstrates the fallacies of Colombian diplomacy when compared to the United States…
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…