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César Niño

Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Sustainable Development, Universidad de La Salle (Bogotá). PhD. in International Law from the Univ. Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain).

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Latin America is violent and criminal, yet peaceful

The world is a place with fewer military tensions than a few decades ago, although very dangerous, violent, and criminalized. Despite the Russian invasion...

Criminal organizations control sections of the Colombian-Venezuelan border

The area shared by both countries has witnessed the transformation and mutation of the armed conflict, the proliferation of criminal organizations and the precarious State presence of both Caracas and Bogotá.

Colombia 2020: a future that is past

2020 has been the year of the return to the past. It leaves us with the lesson of how vulnerable we humans are on Earth and the evidence that the planet does not need humanity to exist, but that it is necessary for the life of humanity.

Negotiating with organized crime

What is legitimate and what is not? Should governments negotiate with terrorist and criminal networks to reduce crime and homicide? Both questions, and many others, arise under this theme. In terms of security and negotiations, there is a wide constellation of cases between states, insurgent groups, and guerrillas, but less so with terrorists or drug cartels.