Las preocupaciones de los colombianos de centro
Este artículo está adaptado de la edición impresa de AQ sobre Colombia en el post-conflicto | Read in English Los colombianos irán a las urnas en mayo próximo para elegir a un nuevo presidente. Este hecho debería inaugurar un período de paz y prosperidad para mi país, pues serán las primeras elecciones que se producen después de la … Read more
¿Renacimiento, o recaída? Colombia alcanza un punto de inflexión tras la pos-guerra.
Este artículo está adaptado de la edición impresa de AQ sobre la paz y oportunidad económica en Colombia | Read in English Los vendedores de una feria de café que se llevó a cabo en julio sobre una cancha de básquetbol en el pueblo colombiano de Algeciras ofrecían fertilizante y fumigadores portátiles. Unos compradores especializados … Read more
Colombia’s Challenge
Special Report Colombia’s Challenge: A Special Report AQ‘s latest issue looks at how Colombia can consolidate peace – and ensure prosperity for more of its citizens. Rebirth, or Relapse? Colombia Hits a Post-War Turning Point. By JOHN OTISNew economic opportunities are creeping into Colombia’s troubled countryside. More are needed to help keep the peace. Who’s … Read more
Claudia López: Colombia’s 2018 Elections Are About Who Can Defeat Corruption
Claudia López isn’t one to be shy. In 20 years of public life – as a student leader, a journalist, and now as senator for Colombia’s Green Party – the 47-year-old has earned a reputation for speaking her mind, particularly when it comes to corruption in politics. Now a candidate for presidential elections in 2018, … Read more
Why Politics Won’t Come Easy for the Newly Disarmed FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) move into politics came to the accordion-rich tune of vallenato. On Sept. 1, the former armed group held a free concert for supporters in Bogotá’s historic Simón Bolívar square, capping off a week-long conference that confirmed its transformation into a full-fledged political party. Many of the 10,000 or … Read more
The Role of Businesses in Colombia’s Conflict Cannot Be Ignored
When Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., discussion of the Colombian implementation of the peace deal took a backseat to other issues, including the importance of continued economic cooperation. “We are and wish to continue to be the best destination in Latin America for American businesses,” Santos commented … Read more
A Familiar Pattern of Violence Could Threaten Colombia’s Peace Process
Implementing peace was always going to be harder than negotiating it. But in the three months since Colombia’s Congress endorsed a deal to end more than 50 years of conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s fragile peace process has already been put to a chilling test. Since Dec. 1 of … Read more
How Santos’ New Peace Deal Aggravated Colombia’s Drug War
Despite a tumultuous 2016, Colombia ended the year on a hopeful note. On Dec. 10, President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to broker peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest rebel group. In his acceptance speech, Santos said that “the impossible had become possible” … Read more
Medellín Proves Investing In Science Is a Good Bet for Cities
In the early 2000s, Medellín struggled to overcome high unemployment, inequality, and a lack of infrastructure and services in its poorest areas. The city needed not just incremental but radical change in order to tackle these challenges and succeed in an ever more competitive global context. To accomplish this, the city’s academics, businesspeople and civic … Read more
“La Historia Secreta del Proceso de Paz”
In August 2010, three days into his first term as president, Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos met for the first time with his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez. Relations between their two countries had hit bottom during the administration of Santos’s predecessor, Álvaro Uribe. But now, in the city of Santa Marta on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, the … Read more
AQ Top 5 Jóvenes Emprendedores: Jimena Flórez
Este artículo ha sido actualizado Este artículo es parte de un reportaje especial sobre los top cinco jóvenes emprendedores latinoamericanos seleccionados por AQ. Haga click aquí para ver el resto. Read in English La historia del éxito emprendedor de Jimena Flórez comienza, inesperadamente, con una cerveza fría en Alemania. Después de graduarse de bachillerato en … Read more
AQ Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs: Jimena Flórez
A globe-trotting Colombian entrepreneur whose healthy snack company speaks to her roots.
The Senator Behind Colombia’s Gay Adoption Fight
With negotiators hurriedly trying to salvage Colombia’s rejected peace deal, one legislator is stirring up conflict of a different sort. For more than a year, Viviane Morales has been pushing a bill that, if passed by Congress and approved in a referendum, would prevent anyone not in a heterosexual marriage from adopting children. Not surprisingly, … Read more
Understanding Indigenous Identity through Film
Anthropology and film have cohabited since the early days of cinema. The blending of artful narrative with scientifically grounded ethnography was pioneered as a genre – dubbed “ethnofiction” – by Jean Rouch, one of the foremost documentary filmmakers of the 20th century. Rouch’s films focused on social life and rituals in Niger and Mali and, … Read more
