MONTHLY EDITORIAL
Voting is not an act of hope. That is the first lie to dismantle. Hope is an emotion, and emotions are manipulable, exhaustible, reversible. Those who want you not to vote are counting on your exhaustion. They are counting on…
By Gabriel Schwarb On Saturday 23 May, a boat sailed along the Magdalena river displaying a giant billboard bearing Abelardo de la Espriella’s face. In the night sky above the Gran Malecón in Barranquilla, drones drew the silhouette of a tiger over the crowd. Fifty thousand people looked upward while the music shifted from Joe …
The figure exists. In 2025, monetary poverty in Colombia reached 28.0 per cent, the lowest on record in the historical series the DANE has maintained since 2012. Every major outlet published it. None celebrated it. Caracol spoke of the 14 million still surviving on around 500,000 pesos. La Silla Vacía warned that the government was …
Between 1948 and 1958, Colombia lived through a war that preferred not to call itself one. La Violencia was not a civil war in the classical sense; there were no defined fronts or armies in the field, but rather a machinery of rural dispossession in which party affiliation decided the fate of farms and bodies. …
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« The world is not chaotic. It is administered. By identifiable interests, with documentable methods, for the benefit of actors who would prefer not to be named. Journalism that pretends not to see this does not practise neutrality: it practises complicity. »
G.S.
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Jean Ziegler died on 10 June 2026 in Geneva, aged 92, from complications of…
The number 18,677 took more than a decade to come into existence and barely…
There exists a modest, almost clerical branch of journalism that consists of counting. CNN…
On May 31, 2026, Abelardo de la Espriella obtained 43.7% of the votes in…
Some novels begin as one thing and end up being another. They present themselves…
In 1948, Colombia was a country where sixty per cent of the electorate voted…
The journalistic agenda is not built in a vacuum. Behind every published article, dozens never came to be. Stories without witnesses, phenomena without names, silences that no one had the time or resources to break.
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