On a recent trip to Peru I made a visit to Casa Aliaga, a colonial mansion first built when Pizarro handed out goodies to his soldiers. One of them, Jerónimo de Aliaga y Ramirez, built a grand house and seventeen generations of his family have been living there since 1535. […]
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Journey to the heart of Botswana
Its rapid growth is largely due to the development of the mining industry, and in particular to the large sites which have transformed this young African country into the one of the main producers of high quality gemstones in the world. Julio Hernández Gaborone, one of the youngest […]
Rivera, the “writer of the jungle”
José Eustasio Rivera denounced the appalling suffering of the indigenous population of this vast region, lost and abandoned inside the national territory because of the constitutional centrality of 1886. Armando Orozco Tovar It is strange that Jose Eustasio Rivera (b. Neiva-Huilla 1886) died young in New York, not because […]
Rebuilding Colombia, purging the establishment
The Colombian Establishment is in dire need of self-purification if its most visible members are to regain the Casa de Nariño in 2026. German Ayala Osorio* Regardless of whether the government of President Gustavo Petro pushes through the social reforms proposed in his electoral campaign, a narrative is […]
Julian Assange, guilty for defending press freedom
For an innocent person to plead guilty is not a capitulation. It is an act of courage and wisdom. The fact that Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to practising journalism, to following the activities that the profession demands, guarantees his freedom but allows his persecutors to play perversely with the freedom of the press and, in the future, to find legal ways to bury the truth.
















