Posts Tagged ‘Desigualdad’
Repairing Victims: Lessons Learned from a Study on Return
In recent days the National Univesity published a study titled “Challenges to the Integration of Returned Communities: Analysis of the Case of Las Palmas, Bolívar”. Although the study aimed to propose a tool that would allow monitoring and measurement of returned communities’ needs in terms of social capital, we will focus on the figures detailing inequality and the possible impact of these on the process of transformative reparations.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreInequality
Mockingly, people used to say that middle class Latin Americans dreamed of being like the Americans from the United States, while the upper class dreamed of being like the Europeans.
Read MoreShopping in Bogotá
For this new year of 2014, I decided to leave behind my usual cheapness. On Christmas Eve, keeping in mind that the traditional wishes for peace and harmony never come true, my wishes took a radical turn.
Read MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
Read MoreSeparate and Unequal: Education and Social Class in Colombia
Elementary and high school students live in two separate and unequal worlds, because the quality of the education they receive is very different. What can we do to close this gap?
Read MoreInjustices and Wars
Injustices cause wars but wars, in turn, also cause injustices. In Colombia, for example, injustice derives from the high inequality in agrarian land ownership, which was used by the guerrillas as a justification for their armed uprising.
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