Casanare and Colombia’s vote-buying democracy
Colombia’s oil rich Casanare department long a supposed political stronghold of right wing paramilitaries, yesterday voted in Marco Tulio Ruiz as its new governor amid accusations of corruption More...
Casanare and Colombia’s vote-buying democracy
Colombia’s oil rich Casanare department long a supposed political stronghold of right wing paramilitaries, yesterday voted in Marco Tulio Ruiz as its new governor amid accusations More...
Colombia´s Santos visits United Kingdom
Colombia President Santos arrived in the United Kingdom today for a two-day trip where he met with Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss ways to increase trade links between More...
Colombia OECD, a place at the top table awaits
Colombia has begun accession talks on entering the prestigious Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it was announced Thursday. Ministers from each More...
Colombia and the arms treaty with no legs to stand on
On April 2nd the United Nations had a breakthrough moment – after years of negotiating the definitions of many terms and at the end of several rounds of revision 154 States More...
A new Colombian countryside?
Nine rounds of negotiations, six months later, the Colombian government the FARC have finally something to show for the talks in Havana. Agrarian reform was perhaps the most More...
Colombia OECD, a place at the top table awaits
Colombia has begun accession talks on entering the prestigious Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), More...
Santos urges Pacific Alliance to “think big”
Colombian President Santos has outlined a bold vision for the future of the Pacific Alliance claiming it “is More...
Colombia´s Santos visits United Kingdom
Colombia President Santos arrived in the United Kingdom today for a two-day trip where he met...
60% of Colombians against President Santos re-election
Colombia President, Juan Manuel Santos faces an uphill struggle to secure his re-election in May 2014...
Colombia President Santos´ six year itch
Bogota, Colombia´s President Santos yesterday promised to bring forward a law to extend presidential and local...
Colombia: On the path to social transformation?
Guest piece by Christian Ortiz in response to a Colombia Politics More...
Colombia: On the path to social transformation?
Guest piece by Christian Ortiz in response to a Colombia Politics editorial critical of Bogotá Mayor, Gustavo More...
Colombia´s May Day protests end in violence
May Day protests in Bogotá ended in violence on Wednesday with police firing tear gas, stun grenades and using water cannon..A better, more modern Bogota
If Bogota is to improve and grow we citizens need more power to get involved and shape our city. I wanted..Venezuela’s boy-who-cried-wolf president
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro is a conspiracy theorist; paranoid Colombia’s right wing is hell-bent More...
Chavez: ¿Angel o demonio?
Guest article by Sheyla Dallmeier Quisieron elevarlo al altar del Olimpo cual dios mitológico de nuevo cuño. Émulos criollos de Hesíodo..Santos urges Pacific Alliance to “think big”
Colombian President Santos has outlined a bold vision for the future of the Pacific Alliance claiming it “is much more than..De los libros no leídos
Guest piece by Miguel M. Benito Que los políticos escriban memorias tras pasar por distintos cargos públicos es bastante común en todo el mundo..
Casanare and Colombia’s vote-buying democracy
Colombia’s oil rich Casanare department long a supposed political stronghold of right wing paramilitaries, yesterday voted in Marco Tulio Ruiz as..
Los tiempos traquetos llegan a África
This article was written for Nueva Politica. Hace apenas una década llegaron los carteles colombianos al pequeño y empobrecido país de..
Plan Colombia and the FARC
Plan Colombia’s success reducing coca cultivation and strengthening Colombia´s democracy was tackled in two earlier articles, here I ask how..

















