It is easy to feel buried by the avalanche of bad news from around the world. But we have a duty to gratefully enjoy the moments of our lives, come what may.
Author: Héctor Abad Faciolince
Héctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian journalist, novelist and translator of many Italian authors. He studied medicine in Medellín and modern literature in Turin. In May 2008, he joined the editorial board of the newspaper El Espectador.
Armed groups are increasingly restricting movement in Colombia’s northwestern Chocó region — a growing problem across the country.
People would have understood Israel’s punitive retribution, even a singularly harsh response, to the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas gunmen. But it has since gone far too far, prompting even sympathizers to wonder in horror, is a democracy committing genocide.
After waiting more than two years for a visa appointment at the U.S. embassy in Bogotá, Héctor Abad Faciolince’s meeting was cancelled following the Jan. 26 spat over migrants between Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump. Nevermind, the Colombian novelist and essayist writes; in a world clearly run by idiots, we’re better off staying at home.