President Trump’s scuppered impeachment may provide a cue to regional leaders working to undermine their own democracies.
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The economy is expected to have a relatively strong year. But will the average Colombian really benefit?
Authoritarianism seems to be gaining ground in many parts of the planet. But from Hong Kong to Chile — and many places in between — people are also pushing back.
-OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Is there a relation between women and the environment? Is it necessary to view environmental policies through female eyes? Is there is a difference in the male and female relationship to the matter? The response to all these is a definite “yes.” Around the world, women are the most interactive with natural […]
Welcome to Monday, where the UK blocks Assange’s extradition, vaccinations are moving too slowly (almost) everywhere and the Asian business world is asking: Where’s Jack? We also follow Le Monde to Casablanca where Moroccans are rethinking what it means to be a man. SPOTLIGHT: DEMOCRACY HAS MORE GRIT THAN YOU MIGHT THINK There are more […]
If societies really want to tackle inequality, they’ll need to do more than just improve access to new technologies.
From Venezuela to Hungary, populist leaders are carving away at fundamental checks and balances in slow and often subtle ways.
Colombians are the latest in Latin America to take to the streets, in what may be the ‘first clang of the bell’ of many aimed at President Ivan Duque.
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Colombia, No Country For Children
An attack on a guerilla camp killed several minors earlier this year. It was an ‘accident,’ say authorities, but it says a lot about the country’s dismal child welfare record.
The collaborative approach to trade, production and services could help countries like Colombia end their dependence on raw materials.
Politics in the region have become even more complex since the Cold War era of revolutions and military juntas.
Some of the world’s most insular places are cut off by land, not water.
Questions are beginning to mount about the fast-growing, tech-based company’s business and hiring practices.
The border of Colombia and Venezuela has become a lawless land where people are kidnaped and killed with impunity.
The war on drugs continues to feed the flames of violence in Colombia, even in this so-called ‘post-conflict’ period.
The FARC, a segment of which is now reneging on its peace-deal commitments, should never have been trusted in the first place, writes Colombian columnist Saúl Hernández.
The decision of some prominent members of Colombia’s disbanded FARC rebels to resume fighting the government is bad news. But history — and demography — are working against them.
There are countless reasons for becoming a writer or a poet, but thankfully very few that we could consider reasonable.
This coming August will mark 20 years since the death of Jaime Garzón, an unlikely martyr in Colombia’s long-running battles with organized crime, drug trafficking and government corruption. Despite studying law and working in politics, what eventually turned him into one of the country’s most influential figures through the 1990s was his sense of humor. […]
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Living Online Is Not Quite Living
Handling daily tasks like shopping online instead of going out is as convenient as it is contrary to the real, and potentially agreeable process called ‘living.’
After serving Communist rebel group FARC, Arturo Zapata was brutally and publicly slain in a village near Medellín, and neither neighbors nor police intervened.
Squabbling online isn’t the only way to connect with the world.
Mateo García Elizondo’s debut novel, which explores the limits of consciousness, marks his first steps on the literary path set by his grandfathers, two eminences of modern Spanish-language literature.
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Can A Writer Ever Retire?
Writers, artists and thinkers often must work to the end, if creative activity were work, both to stave off poverty and their own ‘vital’ degradation.
A Colombian NGO is urging the state to take special measures to protect LGBT+ migrants fleeing hardship in Venezuela only to face new discrimination risks across the border.
What’s the point of pretty produce if you can’t squeeze it and smell it too? Columnist Michelle Arévalo Zuleta makes the case for plastic-free fruits and veggies.
The crush of migrants trying to flee Venezuela is only part of what makes the border region so chaotic. There’s also a dangerous power struggle between guerillas and criminal gangs.
Coca leaf is part of the traditional fare of Andean people. So it is ‘absurd’ and wasteful for Colombia to ban its cultivation to hinder cocaine production.
Overproduction has become a blight not just to the planet, but to profitability itself. It’s time for economics to revise its idea of the cost-benefit relationship.
In the rugged terrain of the Antioquia department, a group of former guerillas recently helped scientists discover 14 new plant and animal species.
Orange-clad couriers working for the delivery firm Rappi are ubiquitous in Bogota. They’re also poorly paid, unorganized and in the way
The Norwegians have a mixed history of conflict mediations in recent decades. Can their dubious track record lead to any success in Venezuela?
The country faces dramatic debt levels among small-scale coffee farmers, as prices fall on world markets. Some have suggested a fixed minimum price for this key Colombian export.
A nation became so attached to a nasty word that it has lost some of its edge, but not all of it.
Three Colombians ended up in Atena Lucana, Italy, instead of Atenas, Greece.
From films to photography, artwork can help arouse the empathy we need to counter these dark days of border walls and White nationalist terrorism, not yet extinct, and art foments it.
-OpEd- MEDELLÍN — A recurring theme one hears from families coming to school is that, above all, they just want their children to be happy. And when you ask parents what happiness means, they’ll say children need more time to play and to have fun — and not be forced to study and think about […]
Local investors and entrepreneurs should learn from past mistakes to harvest the best results from the country’s decision to authorize marijuana production.
In northern Colombia, large-scale banana and palm oil estates have long used their clout to control land and water resources and leave peasant farmers high and dry.
-Editorial- BOGOTÁ — As the world recently watched humanitarian supply trucks burn on a bridge between the Colombian town of Cúcuta and the Venezuelan border, locals anxiously wondered if aid would ever arrive in a region plagued with years of economic crisis. Colombian Attorney General Fernando Carrillo echoed these sentiments after visiting Cúcuta and meeting […]