Hidroituango or: The greatest project nobody wants to take responsibility for

Since April of 2018 the emergency around the Hidroituango project has kept national and local authorities on alert. The possibility of the project...

Opinion: Democracy dies in darkness

Photo by pixabay The past few weeks have been an industry frenzy for the press. Juan Pablo Bieri, director of state media company RTCV, resigned...

Opinion: No easy way out for Venezuela

Photo by Arjun Harindranath Many around the world are hoping for change in Venezuela but the troubled country is unlikely to go through a...

Opinion: Beating the drums of war

Thursday’s attack by the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group at the General Santander Police Academy was an act of terror....

A crosshair on their backs: the seemingly unstoppable crisis behind the murders of social leaders in Colombia

The killings of social leaders continue unabated in Colombia. The assailants and motives behind the killings vary according to each individual case....

Easier said than done – regional cooperation in Latin America’s new populist wave

By Sergio Guzmán and Patricio Provitina The newly elected presidents Jair Bolsonaro and Andrés Manuel López Obrador will likely become...

Notes on a financial panic that never was

Last week there was quite a bit of noise regarding an ongoing campaign to boycott Grupo AVAL, the country’s largest financial conglomerate, over...

Opinion: Enemies of the Documentary

[caption id="attachment_33633" align="aligncenter" width="672"] Still from La Negociación by Margarita Martínez. Image courtesy of La Negociacion...

Opinion: The great debaters

The debate proposed by Senators Angelica Lozano, Gustavo Petro and Jorge Enrique Robledo to discuss the corruption scandals that involve some of the...

Opinion: 100 days of ‘meh’

[caption id="attachment_30642" align="alignnone" width="673"] Colombian President Iván Duque's first 100 days have flown by and has been the subject...