YEAR II  ·  No. 588  ·  MONDAY, JULY 20, 2026

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Preventive defeat does not stop at a runoff

Preventive defeat did not end on the 21st of June. It changed shape. Before the first round, the operation consisted of convincing you that voting was not worth the trouble. It now consists of convincing you that continuing is not…

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Gabriel Schwarb

Editorial Director

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Organised religion spent two thousand years perfecting the fraud Voltaire summed up in a single sentence

Voltaire said it better than any sociologist who came after him. Religion was born the day the first swindler met the first fool, he wrote, and the line survives because it describes with clinical precision a mechanism that no council, no reform and no media scandal has ever managed to dismantle. The point is not …

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SERIES EL LARGO FUEGO EP08

From the Caguán to the 2016 Agreement

Colombia has signed peace with its guerrillas more times than a country should ever need to. Each signature repeats the same gesture, the promise of land that will finally change hands, and each time the land stays almost exactly where it was. Eighteen years separate the Caguán clearance from the Teatro Colón signing, two generations …

Women’s autonomy in Latin America was built piece by piece and still remains incomplete

The recognition of women’s rights in Latin America was not a single milestone but a slow, uneven accumulation of laws stretched across the entire twentieth century that remains open today. Before any woman could vote, some countries already allowed her to manage her own property. After the vote was secured across the region, in 1961, …

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EL LARGO FUEGO
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EL LARGO FUEGO

Colombia has been producing guerrilla for a century for the same reason it produces misery, because its structures are designed not to distribute but to conserve. This series reconstructs, in nine episodes, the chain that turned peasant grievance into armed insurgency, insurgency into criminal economy, and criminal economy into a permanent argument for militarising everything that moves. From the banana massacre of 1928 to the fractured peace of 2026.

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