A government does not reveal its true hierarchy in its inaugural speech, but in the first seventy-two hours of a catastrophe, when time is short and there is no longer room to fake priorities. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck Colombia on Monday, August 10, with its epicenter in San José del Palmar, Chocó, put … CONTINUE READING →
On August 7th, in a sports arena in Cali rather than in Bogotá, Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia for the 2026-2030 term, with King Felipe VI and at least eight Latin American heads of state as witnesses to a ceremony the new Government described as a gesture of decentralisation. … CONTINUE READING →
Power stopped hiding in 2026. This is not a nuance, it is a change of method. Before, it concealed what it did and we uncovered it, with archives, with sources, with months of verification. Now it publishes first, in an official statement, and leaves us only the task of counting. Writing in this context demands … CONTINUE READING →