LAST JANUARY 12, before the victims of the slaughter of Tucson, Arizona, President Obama gave one of the most moving speeches of his career (full of eloquent speeches.)

We columnists are constantly looking for amazing facts or ideas that help us draw the reader out from their own lethargy of the views he reads every day.

In this country economic development, as almost everything else, is uneven.

WILLIAM OSPINA AND ALEJANDRO Gaviria are two prominent Colombian intellectuals, the former a poet and the latter an economist.

WHEN WE'RE HEALTHY, we think our body is invincible; but when we suffer an illness or an accident, we understand that all we are depends on the performance of a few organs, valves and bones that keep us standing.

AT THE ENTRY OF THE PASTRY Arlequin in Bogota, there's a sign that says: "Eating and drinking holds body and soul together".

Many are worried about the fate the current international order may face with the publication, realized by the organization Wikileaks, of thousands of diplomat cables from the Unites States.

In the book "Almost all the truth," María Isabel Rueda asks Enrique Santos the following: Would you say El Tiempo today has a pro-government stance but is politically asexual?. The interviewee responds, "El Tiempo defends the establishment, make no mistake about that. But it has nothing to do with it being politically asexual. If anything, it is coherent and manfully pro-government. "

Social life depends, to a large extent, on the achievement of people's basic expectations: buy a house, get a retirement, educate their children. All these are reasons that people have to live in society and accept its game rules.