An evaluation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia in the run-up to the first round of elections
May 29 will be the first round of the presidential elections where the “peace” issue, which has occupied the attention during the last 24 years in the political electoral debate since the government of Andres Pastrana, is no longer the protagonist.
Macondo’s nightmare or the peace that couldn’t be
The Colombia we dreamed of four years ago is, at present, a worrying dystopia. It is a government that has always been comfortable in the discourse of war and where the electoral and political wealth allows for the understanding of such dire figures as Alvaro Uribe.