Amaya Querejazu
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Tratados de Libre Comercio en Colombia: entre las promesas y el sinsabor
Abstract: It is very hard to tell if Free Trade Agreements are “good” or “bad”, but what I can tell as a consumer is that I cannot see their advantage, [...]
The Strength and Conviction of Working Women in Colombia
Some decades ago Esperanza was married secretly. She and Francisco got together one Thursday at 8 in the morning at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Medellín, with two friends who acted [...]
En Colombia el bienestar no proviene del Estado
Abstract: Colombian population has great expectations toward the State. Many sectors demand that its involvement in social issues is necessary to reduce poverty and inequality. Since a new Constitution was [...]
En Colombia son los jueces quienes ponen a marchar el sistema de salud
Abstract: What can be worse than death? A bad health system. The healthcare system in Colombia is on life-support. This crisis has been going on for a while now, but [...]
En busca de Eldorado
Abstract: To see globalization only taking into account its economic dimension is simplistic and reductionist. If there is something to be held accountable for exploitation and inequality is neoliberalism. Yet, [...]
Sobre cómo el empleo es un juego de azar
Abstract: The rules under which employment is framed are a mystery to me, the criteria on experience and preparation are always contradictory: you don’t need to have experience, yet you [...]
Si vis pacem, para bellum. ¿Es posible la paz en Colombia?
Abstract: War and peace are two opposite, yet complementary aspects of the complex human nature. One simply cannot exist without the other. There are many ways to understand peace, [...]
Democracia en América Latina: ¿Tenemos los gobiernos que nos merecemos?
Abstract: Democracy is a work in progress, sometimes it goes backwards, but improvement shows up eventually in a process that is never going to be finished nor perfect. [...]
Deportistas colombianos: el triunfo de la esperanza sobre la realidad
Abstract: Talent and hope is present in every woman or man that represents a country in the Olympic games. However sometimes it takes more than that; eventually years of malnutrition [...]
La mutación paisa, ¿una cura para el Alzheimer en Colombia?
*Photo by Amaya Querejazu Abstact: Neuroscientists have discovered a mutation in Alzheimer’s disease, located in chromosome 14 which affects younger people. This mutation called the “Paisa mutation” has been found [...]
