YEAR II  ·  No. 598  ·  FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2026

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The same media capital rescues the French far right and judicially besieges Colombia’s left wing government

On 7 July 2026, shortly after half past one in the afternoon, the Paris court of appeal reduced Marine Le Pen’s ban from public office to forty five months, thirty of them suspended, already served since her first conviction. That same evening, on TF1, Le Pen announced she would appeal to the Court of Cassation … CONTINUE READING →

The Republic as Inheritance. Colombia’s Patrimonial Oligarchy

What Colombia calls corruption is not a system anomaly. It is the system’s operating logic under conditions of low opacity. What gets named a scandal is, most of the time, the visibility accident of mechanisms that function normally when no one is watching. The Attorney General’s office describes criminal organisations; researchers call it state capture. … CONTINUE READING →