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I am not going to repeat what is already known. Colombia has spent a month reading the same file in every outlet, the same paramilitary lawyer turned president, the same foundation run by the first lady administering earthquake aid, the…
Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in on August 7, 2026, at the Arena of the Universidad Santiago de Cali, the first presidential inauguration ever held outside Bogotá. In his government plan, proposal number ten states that “a homeland that leaves women alone cannot call itself just.” He promises faster judicial channels, support for victims …
There is a way of walking that has become suspicious, that of the one who hesitates. The faltering step, the one who stops halfway, the one who turns back to try the same path again, attracts today a distrust it perhaps did not attract before. We admire, instead, without much scrutiny, whoever moves fast and …
Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia on 7 August 2026, with less than a one-point lead over his rival, and a host city, Cali, that replaced the Plaza de Bolívar with a university gymnasium because Bogotá had refused him the military garrison he had requested for his inauguration. Even before …
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On 10 August, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook western Colombia. The successive tallies from…
Gérard de Nerval lived from 1808 to 1855, but it is worth setting aside…
The first piece on this government described a hierarchy revealed in the first seventy-two…
The ambiguity of Basel was rhetorical, a text that avoided the word State so…
A government does not reveal its true hierarchy in its inaugural speech, but in…
On August 7th, in a sports arena in Cali rather than in Bogotá, Abelardo…
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