A barracks and a convent
By Mauricio García Villegas |
SIMON BOLIVAR is attributed the following sentence: "Ecuador is a convent, Colombia is a university, and Venezuela is a barracks." Now that we are in the Bicentennial celebration and on the eve of the election of a new president, perhaps it is worth wondering the value of the Liberator's phrase.
Read more Erasers and memory pills
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Last Tuesday, the Third Specialized Judge of Bogota was ready to read the condemnatory sentence against Colonel Plazas ...
Read more Worse than hell
By Mauricio García Villegas |
THE HOPE OF LIFE IN COLOMBIA is 75 years. This means that a citizen can participate in 14 presidential elections over its existence.
Read more The devil doing wafers
By Mauricio García Villegas |
A GOOD way to end with a reasonable rule is to require its compliance relentlessly, even in the most absurd situations.
Read more Governments and judicial independence
By Mauricio García Villegas |
IN ENGLAND, BEHIND the humblest of judges is always the powerful British Navy.
Read more Atheism and evil
By Mauricio García Villegas |
IN COLOMBIA many people believe that atheists are people who are closer to evil than what believers are.
Read more Santos’ slyness
By Mauricio García Villegas |
JUAN MANUEL SANTOS SAYS that the cradle of his campaign in which someone imitates the voice of President Uribe, calling to vote for him, is nothing else than "pure sly."
Read more Doubt and political honesty
By Mauricio García Villegas |
People who never hesitate produce me distrust. Thats why I like Nietzsche's aphorism that says, "its not doubt but certainty what makes people crazy."
Read more Colombia, land of lawyers
By Mauricio García Villegas |
This transcendental legal profession has been largely unregulated and, in addition, poorly regulated. How much should it be intervened?
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