May 17, 2017
Charo Minas Rojas has a long history of challenging Colombia’s patriarchal society. In 2014, she led a group of Afro-Colombian women on a...
Reviews
March 20, 2017
Nicaragua was an international cause célèbre in the 1980s. Activist and intellectuals from around the world visited and wrote about this...
Opinion
October 2, 2016
Who would vote against a peace agreement? This might sound like a tricky question, but in fact Colombians went to the polls today and...
Opinion
July 12, 2016
The historic bi-lateral ceasefire recently signed by the Colombian government and the FARC seems to consolidate the possibility of a final...
Opinion
June 1, 2016
In the past week, several promising reports emerged regarding the current peace process between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government...
blog
April 14, 2016
On April 9, 1948 a series of important events occurred in Bogota, Colombia. On that day, one of the meetings establishing the Organization...
Reviews
April 11, 2016
The apparent thaw in US-Cuba relations is welcome and has been demanded by Cubans since the start of US aggression against the island...
Opinion
September 7, 2015
One of the most important—if not the most important—elements animating the current peace process between the FARC and government...
Reviews
June 9, 2015
Ondjaki’s book, Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret is an homage to the author’s childhood memories. However, the author does not use...