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, [...]
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Economic Immigrants: Cultural Conservation through Food
As economic immigrants, where do we find our cultural identity? The answers are probably as unique as every immigrant that arrives into a new country. So I decided to ask a few of my Latin American friends who have also migrated and ask them about the ties that connect them to their home culture.
The tourism race in the region: More than macro events
This article was originally drafted by Pasko Kisic and the FORO Nacional Internacional as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. It has become usual for [...]
2012 and 2013 through the lens of the Agenda: Suramérica Searchlight function
This article was originally drafted by Fernando Prada and the FORO Nacional Internacional as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Conventional wisdom during 2012 was that [...]
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 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, [...]
Destrucción natural: Un camino sin retorno
Abstract: The concept of modern development is frequently linked to the destruction of nature. The actual government of Colombia is strongly betting for mining exploitation, as a means to reach development. [...]
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 [...]
Dos oponentes: La disyuntiva del proceso de paz en Colombia
Abstract: The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla in Colombia started dialogues for peace, after a war that has meant more than 40 years of [...]
Una dolencia en común
Local governments and international organizations have made remarkable efforts to provide health security to their people. Nevertheless, the situation has not changed for the poor in many countries across some [...]
Students protest in Colombia against higher education reforms
Latin America, 2011: A Year Marked by Social Movements
The Year 2011 will be marked as the year of social unrest and protests in the Latin American history. People came on streets protesting to defend their rights for education, to save their lands and demanding peace. In Chile and Colombia the major protest happened on the issue of education.
The Hard Task of Protecting People’s Health Against their Will
Anti-Smoking laws benefit the population: those who smoke may quit, those who have never smoked may never start, and people who work in restaurants, bar and other establishments are guaranteed a smoke-free work environment. However, these laws have faced the resistance of the community when they’ve passed, despite the fact that it is a law meant to protect their health.
The Risk is Wanting to Stay (that Same Old Way)
The city of Medellin, Colombia has based its marketing on the city’s transformation, but perhaps this story of rags to riches is hurting its citizens.
The Arts in the Developing World’s Job Markets
Growing nations need industry, and this industry needs employees. To give the industry the employees it needs to make the nation grow, citizens must be trained to fulfill these positions. Is there room for the arts in the developing world’s job market?
Colombia Under Water
The Colombian government needs to step up and assume the challenges of climate change. Not only because they have a responsibility with their citizens who are facing rougher rainy seasons every passing year, but also because of the responsibility they have to the rest of the planet and future generations as guardians of part of the Amazon basin.
The Greater WE: Paving the Road for Youth Participation
Youth are rising to demand their rights and to make adults accountable for the state of the economy: how can youth be involved in the greater decisions of the world, so they become part of the solutions?
NGOs in Colombia: a long way from heaven but a little further from hell
In Latin America one can say that the distance between government elites and the people has been historically large. The term “citizenship” is still a work in process, [...]
The Quest for Colombian Gold
Colombia’s mining industry is trying to re-write its history. Can it turn paramilitary incursions, envorinmental chaos and land disputes into friendlier mining? Participating in the world economy with a highly [...]
Rural Windfall or a new Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil [...]
